Auditory Memory
Phenomena of auditory memory in six parts: the brief trace of a sound, interfering sounds, melodic contour, sequence length, repeating patterns and the transposed melody. At the end a blind test: 'The same melody?' Answers are not stored; there is no claim of memory improvement.
Why this order? The first stage is the trace: the silence between two tones grows from half a second to ten seconds, then six tones come into a five-second wait. The second stage is the melody: the same melody at the same pitches, transposed, with the same contour and with a broken contour; then sequences growing from three notes to fifteen, unbroken and in groups of three. The third stage is recognition: one of the eight-note patterns comes back now and then, six times in all; finally the transposed melody next to one with the same contour, and a blind test. Notes play 0.6 seconds apart.
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Echoic Trace
As the gap between two tones grows.
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Parts are not locked; progress stays on this device. The parts are listening practice with no claim of any effect. You can see how each session was made in its details.
Sources
The explanations in the parts rest on these sources; they make no claim of any effect. The citations were checked against Crossref, PubMed or the publisher's record.
How long auditory sensory memory lasts.
Kaernbach C. The memory of noise. Exp Psychol. 2004;51(4):240-248. doi:10.1027/1618-3169.51.4.240
Interfering tones in pitch memory.
Contour, interval and pitch in memory for melodies.
The chunk limit of short-term memory.
Learning repeating noise.
Implicit memory for reoccurring tone patterns.