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| Author(s): |
Bernardo Aguiar de Souza Penha
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Artes |
| Defense date: | 2013-08-28 |
| Examining board members: |
Jônatas Manzolli;
Luis Felipe de Oliveira;
Adolfo Maia Junior
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| Advisor: | Jônatas Manzolli |
| Abstract | |
The interaction of an individual with sound stimuli that surround him is a relevant study, which dialogues with the contemporary research on Musical Cognition. This dissertation focuses this subject field as from the study of sound perception, specifically the notion of Anticipation linked to the theory of the Psychology of Expectation, supported by David Huron (2006). From this point of view, we developed a theoretical and experimental study on the relationship between Familiarity (Yonelinas, 2002) and Expectation (Huron, 2006). In our study the subjects underwent hearing sound stimuli/samples presented simultaneously with a masking noise. Our objective was to verify in which manner the sound Expectation would behave in the process of listening to sounds with complex sound spectrum. We assumed that there is a relationship of direct proportion, i. e., the more familiar a sound is, the better we anticipate it. In order to measure this relationship, we used two psychoacoustic parameters: loudness and response time by reflex action. According to our experimental hypothesis, we expected that the more familiar the sound was, the smaller the loudness and time needed to cause a reflex response of the individual to the stimulus should be. Thus, the Familiarity would entail a better perceptual accuracy, and consequently, there would be a significant improvement in the Anticipation. After conducting a pilot experiment and a final study, we obtained data, which with the necessary statistical analysis provided support to confirm the hypothesis (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 11/04118-0 - Memory, familiarity and anticipation: a study on the influence of expectation in sound perception |
| Grantee: | Bernardo Aguiar de Souza Penha |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |