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Contour Memory

Contour Memory is a cognitive construct in melody perception that refers to the mental representation and retention of the relative pitch trajectory of a melody, distinguished from absolute pitch or interval-based encoding by its emphasis on the sequence of pitch direction changes.

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57

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35

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2017–2026

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Scale and contour: Two components of a theory of memory for melodies.

W. Jay Dowling · Psychological Review · 1978 · 660 citations

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Contour, Interval, and Pitch Recognition in Memory for Melodies

W. J. Dowling, Diane S. Fujitani · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1971 · 357 citations

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Impaired pitch perception and memory in congenital amusia: the deficit starts in the auditory cortex

Philippe Albouy, Jérémie Mattout, Romain Bouet et al. · Brain · 2013 · 271 citations · Full text

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Transsaccadic Memory and Integration During Real-World Object Perception

John M. Henderson · Psychological Science · 1997 · 122 citations

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Scale and contour: Two components of a theory of memory for melodies.

W. Jay Dowling · Psychological Review · 1978 · 94 citations

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Authors

57

  1. BT
    Barbara Tillmann

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    3 publications · 343 citations

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  2. AC
    Anne Caclin

    Inserm, France

    3 publications · 343 citations

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  3. WJ
    W. Jay Dowling

    The University of Texas at Dallas, United States

    3 publications · 831 citations

    3

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  4. JB
    John B. Davies

    University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 28 citations

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  5. EM
    Emmanuel Maby

    Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, France

    1 publications · 271 citations

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Institutions

35

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    4 h-index

    23 publications

    3.2K citations

  2. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

    Villeurbanne, France

    3 h-index

    21 publications

    3.1K citations

  3. Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon

    Bron, France

    3 h-index

    21 publications

    3.1K citations

  4. Inserm

    Paris, France

    3 h-index

    21 publications

    3.1K citations

  5. University of Strathclyde

    Glasgow, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    46 citations

  6. Kyoto Koka Women's University

    Kyoto, Japan

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    26 citations

  7. Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs

    Paris, France

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    37 citations

  8. École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

    Lyon, France

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    37 citations

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Venues

  1. Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal

    3 publications · 229 citations

    3

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  2. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

    JASA · 2 publications · 375 citations

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  3. Psychological Review

    2 publications · 754 citations

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  4. Psychology of Music

    2 publications · 21 citations

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  5. Psychological Research

    2 publications · 66 citations

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