Perfect pitch

Profita, Joseph; Bidder, T. George; Optiz, John M.; Reynolds, James F.

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“…Generally, people tend to think that absolute pitch possessors are superior in all of their auditory abilities. However, in the field of auditory and music psychology, researchers have focused on the etiology of absolute pitch [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] or the merits and demerits of absolute pitch in music cognition [8][9][10][11][12], but have not closely studied the basic hearing abilities of absolute-pitch possessors for general sounds outside the context of music. Studying the basic hearing abilities of absolute pitch possessors may bring insights not only into the mechanisms of absolute pitch itself, but also into problems such as individual differences and the plasticity of auditory functions.…”

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The basic hearing abilities of absolute pitch possessors.

Fujisaki

Kashino

2002

Acoust. Sci. & Tech.

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Generally, people tend to think that absolute pitch possessors or musical experts are superior in all of their auditory and musical abilities. However, not much data has been shown to prove whether any differences exist in the basic hearing abilities of absolute pitch possessors or musical experts for general sounds outside the context of music. In this study, we conducted four experiments to investigate if absolute pitch possessors or music experts are superior in their basic hearing abilities with respect to frequency resolution, temporal resolution, and spatial resolution. In Experiments 1 and 2, we measured frequency discrimination thresholds and thresholds to detect a tone in notched noise to examine the characteristics of frequency resolution. In Experiment 3, we conducted a gap detection task to measure the temporal resolution. Finally, in Experiment 4, we measured interaural time difference discrimination thresholds to examine the spatial resolution abilities. The overall results show that there were no significant differences in frequency, temporal and spatial resolutions among groups with different absolute pitch capability. This indicates that absolute-pitch possessors do not have particularly 'good ears' in terms of resolution.

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The basic hearing abilities of absolute pitch possessors.

Fujisaki

Kashino

2002

Acoust. Sci. & Tech.

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“…An important advance in this understanding came with the recognition that the innate predisposition to AP has a strong genetic component (3)(4)(5)(6). This opened the possibility of using human genetic approaches that could ultimately lead to the identification of molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in AP.…”

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Absolute pitch: A special group of ears

Drayna¹

2007

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…It is generally thought that AP possessors are superior in all of their auditory and musical abilities. However, in the field of auditory and music psychology, researchers have focused mainly on the etiology of AP (Brady, 1970;Cuddy, 1968;Profita & Bidder, 1988), the merits and demerits of AP in music cognition (Bachem, 1955;Benguerel & Westdal, 1991;Miyazaki, 1993Miyazaki, , 1995Miyazaki & Rakowski, 2002;Siegel, 1972), or the neural characteristics of AP (Klein, Coles, & Donchin, 1984;Wayman, Frisina, Walton, Hantz, & Crummer, 1992;Zatorre, 2003); they have not closely studied the basic hearing mechanisms of AP possessors for general sounds outside the context of music.…”

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Contributions of temporal and place cues in pitch perception in absolute pitch possessors

Fujisaki¹,

Kashino²

2005

Perception & Psychophysics

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Pitch perception is determined by both place and temporal cues. To explore whether the manner in which these cues are used differs depending on absolute pitch capability, pitch identification experiments with and without pitch references were conducted for subjects with different absolute pitch capabilities and musical experience. Three types of stimuli were used to manipulate place and temporal cues separately: narrowband noises, which provide strong place cues but less salient temporal cues; iterated rippled noises, which provide strong temporal cues but less salient place cues; and sinusoidal tones, which provide both. The results indicated that absolute pitch possessors utilize temporal cues more effectively when they identify musical chroma. With regard to the judgment of height, it was indicated that place cues play an important role for both absolute and nonabsolute pitch possessors.

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Perfect pitch

Cited by 128 publications

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The basic hearing abilities of absolute pitch possessors.

The basic hearing abilities of absolute pitch possessors.

Absolute pitch: A special group of ears

Contributions of temporal and place cues in pitch perception in absolute pitch possessors

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