Listeners can easily say if a singer sounds “right” or if a music performance is “correct”. What is behind such judgment? This question can be addressed at different levels, from the molecular to the philosophical/psychological level. In this presentation, I will focus on the acoustical level (i.e., information used by the listener) and the cognitive one (i.e., processes involved in the perception of correctness). Recent findings and on-going experiments will be discussed with the objective to better understand what drives music perception.

Pauline Larrouy-Maestri : "Does this melody sound right ?"

Pauline Larrouy-Maestri est chercheuse postdoctorante au Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany, dans l'équipe de neurosciences de David Poeppel. Elle travaille sur la perception des mélodies, et en particulier de tout ce qui nous parait "faux" (mal chanté, pas juste). Abstract : Listeners can easily say if a singer sounds “right” or if a music performance is “correct”. What is the basis of such judgments? This question can be addressed at different levels, from the molecular to the philosophical/psychological level. I will focus on the acoustical level (i.e., information available to the listener) and the cognitive one (i.e., processes involved in the perception of correctness). Recent findings and ongoing experiments will be discussed with the objective to better understand what drives music perception.