TY - JOUR
T1 - The MUSOS (MUsic SOftware System) Toolkit
T2 - A computer-based, open source application for testing memory for melodies
AU - Rainsford, M.
AU - Palmer, M. A.
AU - Paine, Garth
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by Australian Research Council Discovery Grant DP140103746 to M.A.P. and others, and an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship to M.R.
Funding Information:
Author note This research was funded by Australian Research Council Discovery Grant DP140103746 to M.A.P. and others, and an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship to M.R.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Psychonomic Society, Inc.
PY - 2018/4/1
Y1 - 2018/4/1
N2 - Despite numerous innovative studies, rates of replication in the field of music psychology are extremely low (Frieler et al., 2013). Two key methodological challenges affecting researchers wishing to administer and reproduce studies in music cognition are the difficulty of measuring musical responses, particularly when conducting free-recall studies, and access to a reliable set of novel stimuli unrestricted by copyright or licensing issues. In this article, we propose a solution for these challenges in computer-based administration. We present a computer-based application for testing memory for melodies. Created using the software Max/MSP (Cycling ’74, 2014a), the MUSOS (Music Software System) Toolkit uses a simple modular framework configurable for testing common paradigms such as recall, old–new recognition, and stem completion. The program is accompanied by a stimulus set of 156 novel, copyright-free melodies, in audio and Max/MSP file formats. Two pilot tests were conducted to establish the properties of the accompanying stimulus set that are relevant to music cognition and general memory research. By using this software, a researcher without specialist musical training may administer and accurately measure responses from common paradigms used in the study of memory for music.
AB - Despite numerous innovative studies, rates of replication in the field of music psychology are extremely low (Frieler et al., 2013). Two key methodological challenges affecting researchers wishing to administer and reproduce studies in music cognition are the difficulty of measuring musical responses, particularly when conducting free-recall studies, and access to a reliable set of novel stimuli unrestricted by copyright or licensing issues. In this article, we propose a solution for these challenges in computer-based administration. We present a computer-based application for testing memory for melodies. Created using the software Max/MSP (Cycling ’74, 2014a), the MUSOS (Music Software System) Toolkit uses a simple modular framework configurable for testing common paradigms such as recall, old–new recognition, and stem completion. The program is accompanied by a stimulus set of 156 novel, copyright-free melodies, in audio and Max/MSP file formats. Two pilot tests were conducted to establish the properties of the accompanying stimulus set that are relevant to music cognition and general memory research. By using this software, a researcher without specialist musical training may administer and accurately measure responses from common paradigms used in the study of memory for music.
KW - Memory
KW - Music cognition
KW - Recognition
KW - Replication
KW - Software
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U2 - 10.3758/s13428-017-0894-6
DO - 10.3758/s13428-017-0894-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 28432568
AN - SCOPUS:85018830025
SN - 1554-351X
VL - 50
SP - 684
EP - 702
JO - Behavior Research Methods
JF - Behavior Research Methods
IS - 2
ER -