The musical organization between melodies in a composition may provide a cognitive scaffold to overcome attentional limitations when perceiving multiple lines of music concurrently. Coherence may be a key difference between music and stimuli like speech, which does not rely on the integration of multiple streams for comprehension. However, multiple musical streams are processed comparatively easily.
1UCSF Sound and Music Perception Lab, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States.Karen Chan Barrett 1*, Richard Ashley 2, Dana L.
