Music Scrambling

Example stimuli of music scrambled by pitch, rhythm, and both.

Authors:  Sam Norman-Haignere,  Nancy Kanwisher,  Josh H. McDermott
Updated:  2010-12-31
Source:  http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/music_scrambling/index.html
Keywords:  pitch,  harmonics,  frequency,  audition

Consonance

A study into the underlying mechanisms of consonance.

Authors:  Josh H. McDermott,  Andriana J. Lehr,  Andrew J. Oxenham
Updated:  2010-06-08
Source:  http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/consonance_examples/index.html
Keywords:  frequency,  harmony,  acoustics

Neighborhood Density Measures for 57,153 English Words.

An online database of neighborhood density measures for over 50,000 English words

Authors:  Cyrus Shaol,  Chris Westbury
Updated:  2010-04-30
Source:  https://www.psych.ualberta.ca/~westburylab/downloads/westburylab.arcs.ncounts.html
Keywords:  English,  neighborhood density,  orthography,  frequency

Cocktail Party Problem

The cocktail party problem is the task of hearing a sound of interest, often a speech signal, in a complex auditory setting.

Authors:  Josh H. McDermott
Updated:  2009-04-30
Source:  http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/cocktail_examples/index.html
Keywords:  audition,  speech,  noise,  frequency,  English

Sound Contour Demos

A study of relative pitch - the relationships between the pitch of successive sounds - to determine whether properties of relative pitch would generalize to other auditory dimensions.

Authors:  Josh H. McDermott,  Andriana J.,  Andrew J. Oxenham
Updated:  2008-05-09
Source:  http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/sound_contour_demos/sound_contour_demos.html
Keywords:  frequency,  pitch,  harmony,  audition