Effects of Internal Tempo on Selective Attention
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1995
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Haverford College. Department of Psychology
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This present study examined the effects of internal tempo on the selective attention to interleaved musical stimuli. Subjects learned a series of fast and slow tunes, and were then placed in one of three internal tempo groups: arousal, relaxation, and no stimulus. They were then presented with a series of interleaved melodies, and asked to indicate which melody they thought stood out. It was predicted that subjects with faster internal tempi would more frequently attend to the faster tune of the pair, compared to the control group and the relaxed group. Results showed all subjects attended to higher and faster tunes more frequently than lower and slower tunes. When investigating the differences between internal tempo groups, however, results showed that both the arousal and the relaxation groups attended to faster tunes more frequently than slow tunes. Results are discussed in terms of characteristics of the internal tempo and factors of the experimental design.