NDLI: Telling in-tune from out-of-tune: widespread evidence for implicit absolute intonation

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Author	Van Hedger, Stephen C. Heald, Shannon L. M. Huang, Alex Rutstein, Brooke Nusbaum, Howard C.
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	Absolute pitch (AP) is the rare ability to name or produce an isolated musical note without the aid of a reference note. One skill thought to be unique to AP possessors is the ability to provide absolute intonation judgments (e.g., classifying an isolated note as “in-tune” or “out-of-tune”). Recent work has suggested that absolute intonation perception among AP possessors is not crystallized in a critical period of development, but is dynamically maintained by the listening environment, in which the vast majority of Western music is tuned to a specific cultural standard. Given that all listeners of Western music are constantly exposed to this specific cultural tuning standard, our experiments address whether absolute intonation perception extends beyond AP possessors. We demonstrate that non-AP listeners are able to accurately judge the intonation of completely isolated notes. Both musicians and nonmusicians showed evidence for absolute intonation recognition when listening to familiar timbres (piano and violin). When testing unfamiliar timbres (triangle and inverted sine waves), only musicians showed weak evidence of absolute intonation recognition (Experiment 2). Overall, these results highlight a previously unknown similarity between AP and non-AP possessors’ long-term musical note representations, including evidence of sensitivity to frequency.
Starting Page	481
Ending Page	488
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10699384
Journal	Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Volume Number	24
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15315320
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2016-07-06
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Implicit learning and memory Music cognition Sound recognition Categorization Perceptual implicit memory Cognitive Psychology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Arts and Humanities Developmental and Educational Psychology

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