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Before you get into this, I just want to state that this isn't a "right or wrong" test. This is a test of how you perceive sounds. I am not sure if the average ATer's sound gear is going to impact the results of the test. This is supposed to test if you tend to concentrate on fundamental tones or harmonics.
Intro from where I stole it:
"In recent years it has become clearer how people experience sound, and why there is so much diversity in musical and audiophile preferences.
The following test consists of 12 tone pairs which are perceived as either going up or down in height depending on your hearing.
The score should (to some extend) translate to your preferences for things like solid state or tube amps, instruments such as violins, flutes, guitars, and even genres like symphonie orchestra's, jazz etc.
Below are two links to .zip files with which you can perform the test and determine your score. A poll is also included where you can fill in your score to get an idea of scores in general."
One zip file and one Word Doc:
Right click + "save target as"
Test your "Upper tone" / "Bottom tone" perceivement
Determine your score
NOTE: Pay attention to the score method. Most of this thread so far has been trying to get that down. The first version of the score sheet was pretty hard to understand. You DO NOT just want to add up the number of times you thought it went up or down, you need to consult the chart in the "Determine your score" document.
Comments to add from the original maker of the test:
Concerning the used terminology:
I like much your term "test of bottom tone and upper tone perception". May be you can add as a reference:
"test of pitch perception preference"
Bottom tone (fundamental pitch) versus upper tone (spectral pitch) perception.
We used the terms "fundamental pitch listeners" (dominant fundamental picth perception) and "spectral pitch listeners" (dominant spectral pitch perception).
May be synonymously the terms "upper tone lsteners" and "bottom tone listeners" could be used.
Stole this from the AV123 forum, lots more info here to check out
UPDATED REFERENCE AND MORE INFO:
Hello,
Thank you much for you interest in our work on tone/sound perception,
and thank you for your helpful changes of the test performance document, my english version was a pereliminary version.
The "short test" has been performed together with "Audio magazine" in 2006 with more than 6.000 people, and is related to a detailed version with 162 tonepairs, published in 2005 in Nature Neuroscience. I would appreciate, if you could please cite this reference on your forum homepage:
P. Schneider et al., "Structural and functional asymmetry of lateral Heschl's gyrus reflects pitch perception preference", Nat.Neurosci 8, 1241-1247, 2005.
(see arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=44349)
This paper shows the main results of the test of pitch perception preference (upper vs. bottom pitch) and demonstrates a clear neuronal basis.
After analysis of the "short test results" (6.000 subjects", we found that the distribution of pitch perception index (value range -1 to +1) is a little bit different to the large test distribution shown in our 2005 NN paper. The latter shows a clearly bimodal distribution, whereas the short test shows a maximum for -1 and a sort of normal distribution peaking at +0.2 for the rest (ecxept -1). The reason is, that for the larger test, we discuss a third modus of perception (octave shifted fundamental pitch perception, see Methods part of our 2005 paper).
We have just started to develop a new, better test version with about 30 tonepairs (test duration about 5 min.) which will allow to have more detailled information on pitch perception differences as be given by the actual 12 tone test. I will inform you, if availabel (may be in 2-3 month)
There is another recent paper which is related to the pitch test, which you might refer to on your forum homepage:
P. Schneider et al, "Structural, functional and perceptual differences in heschl's gyrus and musical instrument preference", Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 1060, 387-395, 2005.
For the link of our homepage, you should use the english version:
http://www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php?id=5503&L=en
Peter Schneider
Dr. Peter Schneider
Neurologische Klinik
Sektion Biomagnetismus (MEG-Labor)
Ebene 99, Raum 10 1 B
Im Neuenheimer Feld 400
69120 Heidelberg
Germany
peter.schneider@med.uni-heidelberg.de
Additional:
Hello again,
Here you can downlowd the 2nd pitch paper which I mentioned before.
www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1196/annals.1360.033
Best wishes,
Peter Schneider
Intro from where I stole it:
"In recent years it has become clearer how people experience sound, and why there is so much diversity in musical and audiophile preferences.
The following test consists of 12 tone pairs which are perceived as either going up or down in height depending on your hearing.
The score should (to some extend) translate to your preferences for things like solid state or tube amps, instruments such as violins, flutes, guitars, and even genres like symphonie orchestra's, jazz etc.
Below are two links to .zip files with which you can perform the test and determine your score. A poll is also included where you can fill in your score to get an idea of scores in general."
One zip file and one Word Doc:
Right click + "save target as"
Test your "Upper tone" / "Bottom tone" perceivement
Determine your score
NOTE: Pay attention to the score method. Most of this thread so far has been trying to get that down. The first version of the score sheet was pretty hard to understand. You DO NOT just want to add up the number of times you thought it went up or down, you need to consult the chart in the "Determine your score" document.
Comments to add from the original maker of the test:
Concerning the used terminology:
I like much your term "test of bottom tone and upper tone perception". May be you can add as a reference:
"test of pitch perception preference"
Bottom tone (fundamental pitch) versus upper tone (spectral pitch) perception.
We used the terms "fundamental pitch listeners" (dominant fundamental picth perception) and "spectral pitch listeners" (dominant spectral pitch perception).
May be synonymously the terms "upper tone lsteners" and "bottom tone listeners" could be used.
Stole this from the AV123 forum, lots more info here to check out
UPDATED REFERENCE AND MORE INFO:
Hello,
Thank you much for you interest in our work on tone/sound perception,
and thank you for your helpful changes of the test performance document, my english version was a pereliminary version.
The "short test" has been performed together with "Audio magazine" in 2006 with more than 6.000 people, and is related to a detailed version with 162 tonepairs, published in 2005 in Nature Neuroscience. I would appreciate, if you could please cite this reference on your forum homepage:
P. Schneider et al., "Structural and functional asymmetry of lateral Heschl's gyrus reflects pitch perception preference", Nat.Neurosci 8, 1241-1247, 2005.
(see arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=44349)
This paper shows the main results of the test of pitch perception preference (upper vs. bottom pitch) and demonstrates a clear neuronal basis.
After analysis of the "short test results" (6.000 subjects", we found that the distribution of pitch perception index (value range -1 to +1) is a little bit different to the large test distribution shown in our 2005 NN paper. The latter shows a clearly bimodal distribution, whereas the short test shows a maximum for -1 and a sort of normal distribution peaking at +0.2 for the rest (ecxept -1). The reason is, that for the larger test, we discuss a third modus of perception (octave shifted fundamental pitch perception, see Methods part of our 2005 paper).
We have just started to develop a new, better test version with about 30 tonepairs (test duration about 5 min.) which will allow to have more detailled information on pitch perception differences as be given by the actual 12 tone test. I will inform you, if availabel (may be in 2-3 month)
There is another recent paper which is related to the pitch test, which you might refer to on your forum homepage:
P. Schneider et al, "Structural, functional and perceptual differences in heschl's gyrus and musical instrument preference", Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 1060, 387-395, 2005.
For the link of our homepage, you should use the english version:
http://www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php?id=5503&L=en
Peter Schneider
Dr. Peter Schneider
Neurologische Klinik
Sektion Biomagnetismus (MEG-Labor)
Ebene 99, Raum 10 1 B
Im Neuenheimer Feld 400
69120 Heidelberg
Germany
peter.schneider@med.uni-heidelberg.de
Additional:
Hello again,
Here you can downlowd the 2nd pitch paper which I mentioned before.
www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1196/annals.1360.033
Best wishes,
Peter Schneider
I perceived half as rising and half as falling.
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