Diana Deutsch

Diana Deutsch is a perceptual and cognitive psychologist, born in London, England. She is currently Professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego, and is one of the most prominent researchers on the psychology of music. She is probably most famous for the musical and auditory illusions that she has investigated, which include the octave illusion, the scale illusion, the glissando illusion, the tritone paradox, and the cambiata illusion, among others. She also studies the cognitive foundation of musical grammars, the ways in which we hold musical pitches in memory, and the ways in which we relate the sounds of music and speech to each other. In addition, she is highly acclaimed for her work on absolute pitch, or perfect pitch, which she has shown is far more prevalent among speakers of tone language. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... A psychologist is a scientist and/or clinician who studies psychology, the systematic investigation of the human mind, including behavior and cognition. ... The University of California, San Diego (popularly known as UCSD, or sometimes UC San Diego) is a public, coeducational research university located in La Jolla, a seaside resort community of San Diego, California. ... Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... An auditory illusion is an illusion of hearing (sense), the sound equivalent of an optical illusion: the listener hears either sounds which are not present in the stimulus, or impossible sounds. ... Discovered by Diana Deutsch in 1973, the octave illusion is an auditory illusion produced by simultaneously playing two sequences of two notes, high to low, and low to high, in separate stereo channels over headphones. ... Discovered by Diana Deutsch, Deutschs scale illusion is an auditory illusion produced by simultaneous ascending and descending major scales beginning in separate stereo channels with each successive note being switched to the opposite channel. ... An auditory illusion, the glissando illusion is created when a sound with a fixed pitch, such as an oboe, played with a sine wave gliding up and down in pitch, are both switched back and forth between stereo channels. ... The Deutsch tritone paradox is an auditory illusion created by Diana Deutsch (creator of a number of auditory illusions) to test the Shepard scale if proximity information was removed. ... For the topic in theoretical computer science, see Formal grammar Grammar is the study of rules governing the use of language. ... Pitch is the perceived fundamental frequency of a sound. ... In psychology, memory is an organisms ability to store, retain, and subsequently recall information. ... Absolute pitch (AP), widely referred to as perfect pitch, is the ability of a person to identify or sing a musical note without the benefit of a known reference. ... Tone refers to the use of pitch in language to distinguish words. ...

Deutsch obtained a First Class Honors B.A. in Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology from the University of Oxford, and a Ph. D. in Psychology from the University of California, San Diego. She is Editor of the book The Psychology of Music, Academic Press, 1982, 2nd Edition 1999, and author of the compact discs Musical Illusions and Paradoxes (1995) and Phantom Words and Other Curiosities (2003). The University of Oxford (usually abbreviated as Oxon. ... Psychology (from Greek: ψυχή, psukhē, spirit, soul; and λόγος, logos, knowledge) is an academic / applied discipline involving the scientific study of mental processes and behavior of humans and animals. ... The University of California, San Diego (popularly known as UCSD, or sometimes UC San Diego) is a public, coeducational research university located in La Jolla, a seaside resort community of San Diego, California. ...

Deutsch served as Governor of the Audio Engineering Society, as Chair of the Section on Psychology of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as President of Division 10 of the American Psychological Association, and as Chair of the Society of Experimental Psychologists. In 2004 she was awarded the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Achievement in Psychology and the Arts by the American Psychological Association. Established in 1948, the Audio Engineering Society (AES) draws its membership from amongst engineers, scientists, manufacturers and other organisations and individuals with an interest or involvement in the professional audio industry. ... The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an organization that promotes cooperation between scientists, defends scientific freedom, encourages scientific responsibility and supports scientific education for the betterment of all humanity. ... The American Psychological Association (APA) is a professional organization representing psychology in the US. It has around 150,000 members and an annual budget of around $70m. ...

References

• Deutsch, D. (Ed.) The psychology of Music 2nd Edition, San Diego, Academic Press, 1999
• Deutsch, D. Music recognition. Psychological Review , 1969, 76, 300-309.
• Deutsch, D. Tones and numbers: Specificity of interference in immediate memory. Science 1970, 168, 1604-1605.
• Deutsch, D. Mapping of interactions in the pitch memory store. Science 1972, 175, 1020-1022
• Deutsch, D. An auditory illusion. Nature 1974, 251, 307-309
• Deutsch, D. The organization of short term memory for a single acoustic attribute. In D. Deutsch and J. A. Deutsch (Eds.), Short Term Memory New York: Academic Press, 1975, 107-151.
• Deutsch, D. Two-channel listening to musical scales. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 1975, 57, 1156-1160
• Deutsch, D. Musical Illusions. Scientific American 1975, 233, 92-104.
• Deutsch, D. & Feroe, J. The internal representation of pitch sequences in tonal music. Psychological Review 1981, 88, 503-522
• Deutsch, D. Some new sound paradoxes and their implications. In Auditory Processing of Complex Sounds; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series B, 1992, 336, 391-397
• Deutsch, D. Paradoxes of musical pitch. Scientific American 1992, 267, 88-95.
• Deutsch, D. The puzzle of absolute pitch. Current Directions in Psychological Science 2002, 11, 200-204
• Deutsch, J. A., & Deutsch, D. Attention: Some theoretical considerations. Psychological Review 1963, 70, 80-90.

External links

• Diana Deutsch’s web page at the University of California, San Diego

• CDs containing Diana Deutsch's musical illusions