Dimensional Salience across Domains

The perception of speech and music both rely on the processing of dimensions such as pitch and duration. However, the usefulness of these dimensions may vary across the two domains, with pitch playing a particularly important role in music compared to speech. This study asks whether the salience of acoustic dimensions does indeed differ across domains (i.e. in speech versus in non-speech), and if there are stable individual differences in the relative salience of acoustic dimensions across domains.

If you:

• Are native English speaker

• Are aged 18-45

• Have no known hearing impairments

• Are not a drummer (other musical experience is fine)

• Have no experience of tonal languages (e.g. Mandarin, Cantonese, Thai, Punjabi, etc.)

then you are eligible to take part! Birkbeck SONA users can book a testing session directly by clicking here. Alternatively, you can contact us here for more information and to schedule a session with one of our team.

The session will take place at our lab on Malet Street and will last approximately 90 minutes.