ReviewFrontiers in neuroscience2017
On the Perceptual Subprocess of Absolute Pitch.
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- Octave equivalence and the incidental learning of absolute pitch.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2026Article
- Cognitive control in music: adaptive strategies for relative pitch across the absolute-pitch proficiency continuum.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Absolute pitch judgments of familiar melodies generalize across timbre and octave.Memory & cognition · 2023Article
- Cortical representation of musical pitch in event-related potentials.Biomedical engineering letters · 2023Article
- Generalizing across tonal context, timbre, and octave in rapid absolute pitch training.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
- Auditory temporal resolution and backward masking in musicians with absolute pitch.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Domain-specific hearing-in-noise performance is associated with absolute pitch proficiency.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Voice disadvantage effects in absolute and relative pitch judgments.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2022Article
- Accuracy of Tempo Judgments in Disk Jockeys Compared to Musicians and Untrained Individuals.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Strategies Used by Musicians to Identify Notes' Pitch: Cognitive Bricks and Mental Representations.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Absolute pitch (AP) is the rare ability of musicians to identify the pitch of tonal sound without external reference. While there have been behavioral and neuroimaging studies on the characteristics of AP, how the AP is implemented in human brains remains largely unknown. AP can be viewed as comprising of two subprocesses: perceptual (processing auditory input to extract a pitch chroma) and associative (linking an auditory representation of pitch chroma with a verbal/non-verbal label). In this review, we focus on the nature of the perceptual subprocess of AP. Two different models on how the perceptual subprocess works have been proposed: either via absolute pitch categorization (APC) or based on absolute pitch memory (APM). A major distinction between the two views is that whether the AP uses unique auditory processing (i.e., APC) that exists only in musicians with AP or it is rooted in a common phenomenon (i.e., APM), only with heightened efficiency. We review relevant behavioral and neuroimaging evidence that supports each notion. Lastly, we list open questions and potential ideas to address them.
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