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SUBMITTER: McPherson MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7270137 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
McPherson Malinda J MJ Dolan Sophia E SE Durango Alex A Ossandon Tomas T Valdés Joaquín J Undurraga Eduardo A EA Jacoby Nori N Godoy Ricardo A RA McDermott Josh H JH
Nature communications 20200603 1
Music perception is plausibly constrained by universal perceptual mechanisms adapted to natural sounds. Such constraints could arise from our dependence on harmonic frequency spectra for segregating concurrent sounds, but evidence has been circumstantial. We measured the extent to which concurrent musical notes are misperceived as a single sound, testing Westerners as well as native Amazonians with limited exposure to Western music. Both groups were more likely to mistake note combinations relat ...[more]