Sound
A pure tone
What is a sine wave?
This part of the ear gathers the pressure waves and directs them into the auditory canal.
What is the external ear?
This is a word for a listener's tendency to organize segments of the music into units of various size.
What is the temporal lobe?
This American rock band released the studio album "Mania" in January, 2018.
The rate at which a sound wave alternates between compression and expansion.
What is frequency?
The word for the tiny bones in the middle ear.
What are ossicles?
A perceptual system, not dependent on learning, thought to be universal.
What is the bottom-up system?
The words used to describe the understanding that the right and left brains perform distinct, specialized tasks.
What is lateralization?
This artist released "Shape of You" as a digital download in 2017.
Who is Ed Sheeran?
Loudness, or the maximum displacement of molecules compared to resting state.
What is amplitude?
This is the membrane that sets the tiny bones into motion.
What is the tympanic membrane (ear drum)?
A theory of perception that is influenced by learning, and may be specific to certain broad styles/genres, composers, or historical periods.
This test can show how a signal changes during a mental process or in response to a stimulus.
What is an EEG?
This song by Adele reached the highest position on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart, and was on the chart for 24 weeks.
What is "Rolling in the Deep"?
A specific set of frequencies that are higher than the fundamental.
What are overtones?
A coiled portion of the ear that is important in the process of changing a response to fluid pressure into a neural impulse.
The implicative principle of melodic structure stating that people will expect that after hearing a smaller interval, the next will be similar, after hearing a larger interval, the next will be smaller.
What is intervallic difference?
The nervous system's capacity to change associations between brain areas.
What is neuroplasticity?
This singer-songwriter from New Zealand is named Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor, but she is known by another name.
What is Lorde?
This is affected by the overtones when a specific instrument is played.
The cells which convert the signal into a neural impulse.
What are the cilia or hair cells?
The Implication-Realization model states that emotional response to music are linked to this.
What is the violation or fulfillment of a listener's melodic expectation?
This hemisphere of the brain is more apt to be involved in processing the music-like qualities of speech.
What is the right hemisphere?