The Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song (RAVDESS): A dynamic, multimodal set of facial and vocal expressions in North American …

SR Livingstone, FA Russo - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The RAVDESS is a validated multimodal database of emotional speech and song. The
database is gender balanced consisting of 24 professional actors, vocalizing lexically …

Commonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries

N Jacoby, R Polak, JA Grahn, DJ Cameron… - Nature Human …, 2024 - nature.com
Music is present in every known society but varies from place to place. What, if anything, is
universal to music cognition? We measured a signature of mental representations of rhythm …

[HTML][HTML] Acquired and congenital disorders of sung performance: A review.

M Berkowska, S Dalla Bella - Advances in cognitive psychology, 2009 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Many believe that the majority of people are unable to carry a tune. Yet, this widespread
idea underestimates the singing abilities of the layman. Most occasional singers can sing in …

Singing proficiency in the general population

S Dalla Bella, JF Giguère, I Peretz - … journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
Most believe that the ability to carry a tune is unevenly distributed in the general population.
To test this claim, we asked occasional singers (n= 62) to sing a well-known song in both the …

Disorders of pitch production in tone deafness

SD Bella, M Berkowska, J Sowiński - Frontiers in psychology, 2011 - frontiersin.org
Singing is as natural as speaking for the majority of people. Yet some individuals (ie, 10–
15%) are poor singers, typically performing or imitating pitches and melodies inaccurately …

Universality and cross-cultural variation in mental representations of music revealed by global comparison of rhythm priors

N Jacoby, R Polak, J Grahn, DJ Cameron, KM Lee… - 2021 - osf.io
Music is present in every known society, yet varies from place to place. What is universal to
the perception of music? We measured a signature of mental representations of rhythm in …

The mistuning perception test: A new measurement instrument

P Larrouy-Maestri, PMC Harrison… - Behavior Research …, 2019 - Springer
An important aspect of the perceived quality of vocal music is the degree to which the
vocalist sings in tune. Although most listeners seem sensitive to vocal mistuning, little is …

A psychocultural theory of musical interval: Bye bye Pythagoras

R Parncutt, G Hair - Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary …, 2018 - online.ucpress.edu
The Pythagoreans linked musical intervals with integer ratios, cosmic order, and the human
soul. The empirical approach of Aristoxenus, based on real musicians making real music …

The vocal generosity effect: How bad can your singing be?

S Hutchins, C Roquet, I Peretz - Music Perception, 2012 - online.ucpress.edu
prior work indicates that listeners may be more likely to call a note in-tune when it is sung
than when it is in another timbre. The current study seeks to confirm whether this vocal …

Intervals and scales

WF Thompson - The psychology of music, 2013 - books.google.com
Sounds that involve changes in pitch arise from a range of sources and provide useful
information about the environment. For humans, the most salient sources of pitch change …