A final experiment which systematically varied both process and form indicated that process and contour can completely mask any perceptual effects of form. On balance, melodic process, contour, and ...

Previous research on melody recognition indicates that listeners can recognize contour information when melodies are retained for brief intervals and can recognize interval information of melodies ...

Melodic contour is the relative up and down changes in pitch. Switching musical keys preserves the relative pitch changes within a song.

Molly Henry and Jonas Obleser from the Max Planck Research Group “Auditory Cognition” now followed up on this recurrent idea by investigating the listening brain. This idea holds fascinating ...