Croonen W L
Institute for Perception Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Percept Psychophys. 1994 Jun;55(6):623-32. doi: 10.3758/bf03211677.
Four experiments on recognition of tone series are reported. The first experiment tested the accuracy of recognition in relation to length, contour complexity, and tonal structure of the series. Series comprised (1) 7 or 10 tones, (2) either a strong or a weak tonal structure, depending on the temporal ordering of the tones, and (3) few or many contour reversals. The second experiment used 7-tone series having either a strong or a weak tonal structure, depending on the mode (Ionian or Phrygian) in which the series was presented. Both experiments employed a same-different task in which a standard series was compared with either an exact or an inexact transposition, the latter type having one incorrectly transposed tone (mostly nondiatonic in Experiment 1 and always diatonic in Experiment 2). These experiments showed that (1) 7-tone series were better recognized than were 10-tone series, (2) series with a strong tonal structure were better recognized than were series with a weak tonal structure, and (3) contour complexity did not influence the responses. Two control experiments, using mistuned tone series, showed that the outcomes of Experiments 1 and 2 could not be attributed to nonmusical artifacts of the stimulus set.
本文报告了四项关于音调序列识别的实验。第一项实验测试了在音调序列的长度、轮廓复杂度和音调结构方面的识别准确性。序列包括：（1）7个或10个音调；（2）根据音调的时间顺序，具有强或弱的音调结构；（3）很少或很多轮廓反转。第二项实验使用了7个音调的序列，其音调结构根据呈现序列的模式（伊奥尼亚调式或弗里几亚调式）为强或弱。两项实验均采用了相同-不同任务，即将一个标准序列与一个精确或不精确的转位序列进行比较，后一种类型有一个音调转位错误（在实验1中大多为非全音阶，在实验2中总是全音阶）。这些实验表明：（1）7个音调的序列比10个音调的序列识别效果更好；（2）具有强音调结构的序列比具有弱音调结构的序列识别效果更好；（3）轮廓复杂度不影响反应。两项使用音高不准的音调序列的对照实验表明，实验1和实验2的结果不能归因于刺激集的非音乐伪迹。
