Modelling Melodic Memory and the Perception of Musical Similarity
Lead Research Organisation:
Goldsmiths University of London
Department Name: Computing Department
Abstract
One of the ways music listeners often find their music is by searching for songs or pieces that sound like one another. The aim of our project is to understand the different ways in which people view different pieces of music as similar and to build a computer program which is capable of making the same judgements. That programme can then be used to help people find the music they want in shops, libraries and so on.Perhaps the most important outcome of the project, which underlies all the above, is a better understanding of one aspect of how the human mind works. Thus, the project aims to help us understand ourselves.
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Publications
Agres K
(2018)
Information-Theoretic Properties of Auditory Sequences Dynamically Influence Expectation and Memory.
in Cognitive science
Agres K.
(2013)
An Information-Theoretic Account of Musical Expectation and Memory
in Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013
Halpern AR
(2008)
Effects of timbre and tempo change on memory for music.
in Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)
Hansen NC
(2014)
Predictive uncertainty in auditory sequence processing.
in Frontiers in psychology
Müllensiefen D
(2009)
Court decisions on music plagiarism and the predictive value of similarity algorithms
in Musicae Scientiae
Wiggins G
(2016)
Models of musical similarity
in Musicae Scientiae