Universality, domain-specificity and development of psychological responses to music

M Singh, SA Mehr - Nature reviews psychology, 2023‏ - nature.com
Humans can find music happy, sad, fearful or spiritual. They can be soothed by it or urged to
dance. Whether these psychological responses reflect cognitive adaptations that evolved …

Music influences vividness and content of imagined journeys in a directed visual imagery task

SA Herff, G Cecchetti, L Taruffi, K Déguernel - Scientific Reports, 2021‏ - nature.com
Directed, intentional imagination is pivotal for self-regulation in the form of escapism and
therapies for a wide variety of mental health conditions, such anxiety and stress disorders …

The perceptual relevance of balance, evenness, and entropy in musical rhythms

AJ Milne, SA Herff - Cognition, 2020‏ - Elsevier
There is an uncountable number of different ways of characterizing almost any given real-
world stimulus. This necessitates finding stimulus features that are perceptually relevant …

Interpreting Rhythm as Parsing: Syntactic‐Processing Operations Predict the Migration of Visual Flashes as Perceived During Listening to Musical Rhythms

G Cecchetti, CA Tomasini, SA Herff… - Cognitive …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Music can be interpreted by attributing syntactic relationships to sequential musical events,
and, computationally, such musical interpretation represents an analogous combinatorial …

Musical garden paths: Evidence for syntactic revision beyond the linguistic domain

G Cecchetti, SA Herff, MA Rohrmeier - Cognitive science, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
While theoretical and empirical insights suggest that the capacity to represent and process
complex syntax is crucial in language as well as other domains, it is still unclear whether …

Musical syntactic structure improves memory for melody: Evidence from the processing of ambiguous melodies

G Cecchetti, SA Herff… - Proceedings of the Annual …, 2021‏ - escholarship.org
Memories of most stimuli in the auditory and other domains are prone to the disruptive
interference of intervening events, whereby memory performance continuously declines as …

The role of divided attention and expertise in melody recognition

SA Herff, D Czernochowski - Musicae Scientiae, 2019‏ - journals.sagepub.com
When attention is divided during memory encoding, performance tends to suffer. The nature
of this performance decrement, however, is domain-dependent and often governed by …

Memory for melodies in unfamiliar tuning systems: Investigating effects of recency and number of intervening items

SA Herff, KN Olsen, RT Dean… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2018‏ - journals.sagepub.com
In a continuous recognition paradigm, most stimuli elicit superior recognition performance
when the item to be recognized is the most recent stimulus (a recency-in-memory effect) …

The effect of low-frequency equalisation on preference and sensorimotor synchronisation in music

S Beveridge, E Cano, SA Herff - Quarterly Journal of …, 2022‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Equalisation, a signal processing technique commonly used to shape the sound of music, is
defined as the adjustment of the energy in specific frequency components of a signal. In this …

Interference in memory for pitch-only and rhythm-only sequences

SA Herff, KN Olsen, J Prince, RT Dean - Musicae Scientiae, 2018‏ - journals.sagepub.com
In human memory, the ability to recognize a previously encountered stimulus often
undergoes cumulative interference when the number of intervening items between its first …