Sound
Hearing
Grouping
Music and Language
Music Trivia
100

A pure tone

What is a sine wave?

100

This part of the ear gathers the pressure waves and directs them into the auditory canal. 

What is the external ear?

100

This is a word for a listener's tendency to organize segments of the music into units of various size.

What is grouping?
100
The lobe containing the auditory cortex.

What is the temporal lobe?

100

This American rock band released the studio album "Mania" in January, 2018.

What is Fall Out Boy?
200

The rate at which a sound wave alternates between compression and expansion.

What is frequency?

200

The word for the tiny bones in the middle ear.

What are ossicles?

200

A perceptual system, not dependent on learning, thought to be universal.

What is the bottom-up system?

200

The words used to describe the understanding that the right and left brains perform distinct, specialized tasks.

What is lateralization?

200

This artist released "Shape of You" as a digital download in 2017.

Who is Ed Sheeran?

300

Loudness, or the maximum displacement of molecules compared to resting state.

What is amplitude?

300

This is the membrane that sets the tiny bones into motion.

What is the tympanic membrane (ear drum)?

300

A theory of perception that is influenced by learning, and may be specific to certain broad styles/genres, composers, or historical periods. 

What is top-down?
300

This test can show how a signal changes during a mental process or in response to a stimulus.

What is an EEG?

300

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"?

400

A specific set of frequencies that are higher than the fundamental.

What are overtones?

400

A coiled portion of the ear that is important in the process of changing a response to fluid pressure into a neural impulse.

What is the cochlea?
400

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? 

400

The nervous system's capacity to change associations between brain areas.

What is neuroplasticity?

400

This singer-songwriter from New Zealand is named Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor, but she is known by another name. 

What is Lorde?

500

This is affected by the overtones when a specific instrument is played.

What is the timbre?
500

The cells which convert the signal into a neural impulse.

What are the cilia or hair cells?

500

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?

500

This hemisphere of the brain is more apt to be involved in processing the music-like qualities of speech.

What is the right hemisphere?