Talk:Culture in music cognition/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Sasata (talk · contribs) 23:33, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Hi, I'll claim this review. I'll make uncontroversial copyedits as I read the article, and bring anything else here for discussion. Comments in a day or two. Sasata (talk) 23:33, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Comments. Ok, here's some comments to get us started. Prose looks good, but there's a few instances where psycho-jargon is used without adequate explanation. Some end-of-paragraph sentences are uncited, leaving me to question whether the conclusion if from a source or from the authors of this article. I'll let you work on these while I dig more deeply into the literature and cross-check some of the sources. Sasata (talk) 20:24, 24 November 2011 (UTC)


 * "Familiarity for culturally regular meter styles" what is a regular meter style?
 * "The looking times of 4- to 8-month old Western infants indicate …" what is a "looking time"?
 * "… and did not indicate that one style of music was more tense than the other." not sure what this means
 * "… the children's self-reported distraction was the same for all excerpts." there is no context or explanation given that helps me understand what this "distraction" is about
 * "Thus, the language of lyrics interacts with a listener's culture and language abilities to affect preferences." is this a conclusion from the source? If so, it should be cited (if not, it's original research)
 * "Fast tempo, for example, is typically associated with happiness, regardless of a listener's cultural background." source? (Anecdotally, when I listen to thrash metal, I don't associate that with "happiness")
 * "Thus, the cue-redundancy model may be overly simplistic in its distinctions between structural feature detection and cultural learning, at least in the case of complexity." source?
 * "Use of dichotomous scales (e.g., simple happy/sad ratings) may mask this phenomenon, as these tasks require participants to report a single component of a multidimensional affective experience." source?
 * please explain/link/define "executive function, "semantic retrieval", "cognitive schemata"
 * enculturation should be linked earlier is the article (there's some other examples of terms that should be linked earlier, on their first occurrence--tempo comes to mind; please check throughout)
 * links already present in the article are not to be repeated in the "See also" section

No response from nominator, who has been inactive for a couple of weeks, so I am failing this review. Sasata (talk) 19:04, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
 * (Technical comment): the bullet list above was added in the 24 November edit, not in the 13 December fail. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk to me 21:25, 16 December 2011 (UTC)