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Science 14 December 1984:
Vol. 226. no. 4680, pp. 1333 - 1334
DOI: 10.1126/science.226.4680.1333
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Auditory Illusions Demonstrating That Tones Are Assimilated to an Internalized Musical Scale

ROGER N. SHEPARD 1 and DANIEL S. JORDAN 1

1 Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305

Judgments of relations between tones in a sequence derived from the major diatonic scale (do, re, mi, . . .) by systematic distortions (either equalization or stretching of intervals) reveal that Western listeners interpret the tones relative to that musical scale even when they try to judge the purely physical relations between the tones.

Submitted on April 9, 1984
Accepted on August 2, 1984


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