| Abstract: | Ss listened to a standard 6-tone melody, followed by a comparison melody that was always transposed up 4 semitones from the standard; this transposition was either exact or it was inexact while maintaining contour. Ss judged whether the comparison melody formed an exact transposition of the standard. Repetition of the standard melody, before presentation of the comparison, resulted in a significant improvement in performance compared to featuring only a single presentation of the standard. Improvement also resulted when the repeated melody was displaced intact an octave higher or an octave lower. However, when the standard melody was repeated such that its components were displaced alternately to the higher and lower octaves, performance was significantly worse than when the standard melody was not repeated at all. Octave equivalence effects for single tones did not operate in the consolidation of melodic information. (French summary) (19 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
