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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 13.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Hum Behav. 2017 Dec 11;2(1):52–66. doi: 10.1038/s41562-017-0261-8

Figure 5. Task, results, schematic of incorrect interval trials from Experiment 6 – familiar melody recognition.

Figure 5

(A) Stimuli and task for Experiment 6. Participants on Amazon Mechanical Turk heard 24 melodies, modified in various ways, and were asked to identify each melody by typing identifying information into a computer interface. Three conditions (Harmonic, Inharmonic, and Inharmonic-Changing) preserved the pitch intervals between notes. Two additional conditions (Incorrect Intervals with harmonic or inharmonic notes) altered each interval between notes but preserved the contour (direction of pitch change between notes). The Rhythm condition preserved the rhythm of the melody, but used a flat pitch contour.

(B) Results from Experiment 6. Error bars denote standard deviations calculated via bootstrap.