Two Curiosities Linking Music and Speech http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/595M/spring_2010_talk_7.html
Hola, todos, había prometido enviar información sobre conferencias interesantes acá en UCSB, revisando material, creo que esta puede ser muy interesante para músicos y gente trabajando con sonido. Es sobre "oído absoluto" (creo que es la traducción correcta de absolute pitch) e ilusiones acústicas (su equivalente en sonido a ilusiones ópticas). La conferencia fue dicatda por Diana Deutsch en Mayo. Entiendo la señora Deutsch es una referencia muy importante en el campo. aca mas info: *Abstract* This paper describes two lines of research that point to strong linkages between music and speech. The first concerns absolute pitch. It is argued that the real puzzle concerning this ability is not why a few people possess it, but rather why it is so rare. Findings are described showing that the prevalence of absolute pitch is far higher among speakers of tone languages such as Mandarin than among speakers of nontone languages such as English, and the reason for this association is discussed. The second part of the talk is built around an illusion in which a spoken phrase is made to be heard convincingly as sung rather than spoken, just by repeating it several times over. This perceptual transformation occurs in the absence of any musical context, and without altering the signal in any way. Furthermore, once this perceptual transformation has occurred, the phrase continues to be heard as sung rather than spoken even after months have elapsed. The illusion is demonstrated, and the conditions under which it occurs are explored. *Bio* Diana Deutsch is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego, and conducts research on perception and memory for sounds, particularly music. She has discovered a number of musical illusions and paradoxes, which include the octave illusion, the scale illusion, the glissando illusion, the tritone paradox, and the speech-to-song illusion, among others. She also explores ways in which we hold musical information in memory, and in which we relate the sounds of music and speech to each other. Much of her current research focuses on the question of absolute pitch - why some people possess it, and why it is so rare. Deutsch obtained a First Class Honors B.A. in Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, San Diego. She is Editor of the book The Psychology of Music, Academic Press, 1982, 2nd Edition 1999, and author of the compact discs Musical Illusions and Paradoxes (1995) and Phantom Words and Other Curiosities (2003). Deutsch has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Acoustical Society of America, the Audio Engineering Society, the Society of Experimental Psychologists, the American Psychological Society, and the American Psychological Association. She has served as Governor of the Audio Engineering Society, as Chair of the Section on Psychology of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as President of Division 10 of the American Psychological Association, and as Chair of the Society of Experimental Psychologists. She is Founding Editor of the journal Music Perception, and served as Founding President of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition. She was awarded the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Achievement in Psychology and the Arts by the American Psychological Association in 2004, and the Gustav Theodor Fechner Award for Outstanding Contributions to Empirical Aesthetics by the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics in 2008. Saludos !!! -- Andres Burbano PhD Candidate Media Arts and Technology | University of California Santa Barbara Coordinador | Convenor | Latin American Forum ISEA2010
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