Peter Q Pfordresher

Datos Biográficos

ID5873581
NOMBREPeter Q Pfordresher
NOMBRESPeter Q
APELLIDOPfordresher
FIRMAPFORDRESHER P Q
AFILIACIONESUniversity at Buffalo, State University of New York
ORCID0000-0002-7024-0785
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS11
TOTAL DE CITAS4
TOTAL COMO AUTOR11
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2012
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H1

  • Interval Patterns Facilitate Short-Term Memory Encoding of Auditory Pitch Sequences

    Nathan A Zak, David Temperley et al.ARTICLEMusic Perception An Interdisciplina…2026

    This study investigated short-term memory recognition for melodies and the effect of patterns (repeated subsequences) within a melody. Participants (n = 54) completed a same/different task in which they listened to two consecutive melodies on each trial that could be identical or could differ by one pitch. Melodies could contain patterns based on pitch intervals or melodic contour or could have no pattern structure (i.e., no repeated subsequences…

  • Singing Your Heart Out

    Thomas L Saltsman, Tim A Pruitt et al.ARTICLEMusic Perception An Interdisciplina…2025

    The act of singing in evaluative contexts (e.g., singing in front of an audience) creates acute stress; however, individuals may vary in terms of the nature of stress responses. In the current work, we explored the relationship between singing pitch accuracy and individuals’ cardiovascular stress responses during singing performance. In an initial vocal screening session, we assessed 60 university students’ singing accuracy with a pitch imitation…

  • Just Can’t Get You Out of My Head

    David J Vollweiler, Peter Q PfordresherARTICLEMusic Perception An Interdisciplina…2025

    Involuntary musical imagery (INMI, or “earworms”) are short, repetitive sections of music that spontaneously occur. Prior research observed significant positive correlations between self-reported music experience and frequency of earworms, and the use of earworms to enhance semantic memory. Previous hypotheses suggest that singing accuracy uses voluntary imagery to help people imitate pitches, and that singing accuracy is positively related to an…

  • Speech-to-song transformation in perception and production

    Open AccessYan Chen, Adam Tierney et al.ARTICLECognition2025

  • Effects of pitch range on singing accuracy training

    Open AccessPeter Q Pfordresher, Emma B GreensponARTICLEMusicae Scientiae2025

    Recent theory and data suggest that inaccurate ( poor-pitch or poor ) singing may be based on impoverished sensorimotor mapping between auditory perceptual representations and motor plans. One of the symptoms of poor singing is a restriction of vocal pitch range during pitch matching tasks that is not reducible to physical vocal limitations. We here test the hypothesis that remediation of poor singing may be best achieved by incorporating a wide …

  • Effects of intention in the imitation of sung and spoken pitch

    Open AccessPeter Q Pfordresher, James T Mantell et al.ARTICLEPsychological Research2022

  • The effect of visual and auditory feedback on adult poor-pitch remediation

    Open AccessJacob Berglin, Peter Q Pfordresher et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Music2022

    Previous research has led to the hypothesis that poor-pitch singing is the result of a weakness in the auditory/vocal loop. The present study evaluated this hypothesis in a training paradigm that used visual feedback to augment potentially faulty auditory-vocal associations. Following pretest with the Seattle Singing Accuracy Protocol (SSAP), participants were randomly assigned to one of three 20-min training conditions: (1) visual feedback train…

  • Generalization of novel sensorimotor associations among pianists and non-pianists

    Open AccessPeter Q Pfordresher, Chihiro Honda et al.ARTICLEPsychological Research2021

  • The Prevalence and Correlates of Accurate Singing

    Open AccessPeter Q Pfordresher, Steven M DemorestARTICLEJournal of Research in Music…2020Referencias: 3

    The purpose of this study was to analyze a large sample of volunteers from the general population who were tested with an identical online measure of singing accuracy. A sample of 632 participants completed the Seattle Singing Accuracy Protocol (SSAP), a standardized measure of singing accuracy, available online, that includes a test of pitch discrimination and basic demographic questions. Analyses addressed basic questions relating to the distri…

  • Singing Ability, Musical Self-Concept, and Future Music Participation

    Open AccessSteven M Demorest, Jamey Kelley et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Music…2016Citada por: 4Referencias: 8

    Research on adults who identify as “tone deaf” suggest that their poor musical self-concept is shaped by a view of themselves as nonsingers even when their perceptual skills and singing ability are not significantly worse than the general population. Many of these adults self-selected out of further participation as children but expressed regret as adults for lost opportunities. The purpose of this investigation was to explore the role of musical…

  • The experience of agency in sequence production with altered auditory feedback

    Open AccessJustin J Couchman, Robertson Beasley et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2012