Vocals and attention
Funding
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Vocals and attention
Exploring the salience of different sound sources in popular music mixes
We conducted online experiments in which participants detected single cued instruments or voices in multi-track musical mixtures. Stimuli consisted of short excerpts of popular music. It turned out that vocals attract auditory attention in a particularly salient way.
Here, you find examples wrt general instrument and voice detection + influence of level and filtering (Bürgel, Picinali, & Siedenburg, 2021, Front. Psych)
Here, you find examples wrt influence of frequency micro-modulations and lead melody Bürgel, Siedenburg, 2023, under review)
Here, you find examples wrt influence of distractor sounds and frequency micro-modulationns on recognition of vocals and instrumentsy (Bürgel, Siedenburg)
Detection task examples
Mixture followed by Target
![Detection task](/f/6/_processed_/c/c/csm_SoundExamples_VA_OrderMT_f864fb416b.png)
Vocals (present in the mixture) | Vocals (absent from the mixture) | Bass (present in the mixture) | Bass (absent from the mixture) | Drums (present in the mixture) | Drums (absent in the mixture) |
Target followed by Mixture
![Detection task](/f/6/_processed_/d/2/csm_SoundExamples_VA_OrderTM_2685ee5654.png)
Vocals (present in the mixture) | Vocals (absent from the mixture) | Bass (present in the mixture) | Bass (absent from the mixture) | Drums (present in the mixture) | Drums (absent in the mixture) |