Experiment 1a

Experiment 1 investigated the influence of listeners’ tonal expectations on tone processing with two target timbre discrimination tasks (see Tillmann et al., 2006 for similar timbre tasks applied to chord sequences). In Experiment 1a, only two timbres were used, with the target being played either by the same timbre as the prime context or by another timbre. In Experiment 1b, two target timbres both different from the timbre of the prime context were used.