Jon Prince

Circular tones are artificial complex tones typically comprised of several octave-spaced frequencies. By definition, all frequency components of octave-spaced circular tones belong to the same pitch class. The relative intensity of the octave-spaced partials in a ...

A feature is a distinct and measurable property of a phenomenon or stimulus being encountered. Everything individuals encounter in everyday life has multiple features. A shirt has a certain shape, color, and texture; a drink has a certain temperature, taste, and ...

Professor and popular writer Steven Pinker has long been a proponent of evolutionary psychology, an effort to apply principles of evolution by natural selection to explain complex social, behavioral, and cognitive traits. Pinker has promulgated the view that music, unlike other ...

It is impossible to observe directly human cognitive faculties, such as thinking, memory, or perception of musical rhythm. So, scientists use indirect methods, such as behavioral measures, that, when used properly, can afford inferences about human cognition, linking the physical and ...

Tonality, or musical key, is the central organizational principle of pitch in common-practice Western music. It provides a hierarchical arrangement of the 12 pitch classes per octave, such that individual pitch classes vary in their stability, both in a music-theoretical and ...