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So yep, here’s my new paper Popular Music Excerpts Are Rated As More Memorable And Salient If They Involve Vocals, Compound Hooks and Choruses in #MusicPerception: @AusMusPsySoc @drwsears.

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The research was done with the help of Carl and Max who were third year psychology student interns - thanks Carl and Max!.

Another interesting finding was that excerpts that had been rated by musicologists as having more than one feature that was a hook (e.g., that the rhythm and pitch content of a melodic phrase were catchy in different ways) were more likely to be rated higher by participants. (4).

This may be explained in terms of the ‘auditory scene analysis’ process that goes on while we listen to complex sounds, with the vocals usually perceived as being in the foreground and other parts of the production more likely to be perceived as background. (3).

In other words, which bits of the song were the hooks! We found some interesting findings! Firstly, participants thought that the vocals were usually the most attention-grabbing and memorable parts of the production – this was the biggest effect found. (2).

I have a paper now out in Music Perception which separated the tracks (drums, vox etc) in pop song recordings, and then asked participants to rate how attention-grabbing and memorable particular phrases were (1).

Very nice to get a print copy of the Cambridge Companion to Music In Australia in which Jadey and I have a chapter, edited by @AmandaHarrisSyd and @ClintBracknell

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Jadey O'Regan and I have a chapter in this about the Australian singles charts - cover looks very nice!.