A Response to Andrea R. Halpern's Commentary

Abstract

The author responds to points raised in Andrea Halpern’s commentary, which appeared in Vol. 2, No. 1 of Empirical Musicology Review. Discussion focuses on the apparent contradiction between self-reports of veridical mental imagery of musical timbre, and cognitive constraints on temporal memory for multidimensional sound.

Keywords

• timbre
• musical imagery
• perception
• memory
• encoding