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Pairs of sounds, whose components were two pure tones presented simultaneously or successively, were discriminated by music and nonmusic students under same-different, matching-to-sample, and ABX modes of judgment. In contrast to the results of a previous study involving complex piano notes as components, there was no significant difference in the accuracy of discriminating simultaneous-simultaneous and successive-successive pairs or in the discrimination of simultaneous-successive and successive-simultaneous pairs.
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Thanks are due to Harriet Emerson for recording, testing, and data analysis, to Thomas Weisz for modification of the intonation trainer, and to Bonnie Bartholomeus and Daniel Ling for comments on the manuscript. This research was supported under Grant MA-1652 from the Medical Research Council of Canada.
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Doehring, D.G. Discrimination of simultaneous and successive pure tones by musical and nonmusical subjects. Psychon Sci 22, 209–210 (1971). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03332572
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