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Early tone categorization in absolute pitch musicians is subserved by the right-sided perisylvian brain.
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- Conceptual coherence but methodological mayhem: A systematic review of absolute pitch phenotyping.Behavior research methods · 2025Pooled it
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- Behavioral and neural measures of confidence using a novel auditory pitch identification task.PloS one · 2024Article
- Cortical representation of musical pitch in event-related potentials.Biomedical engineering letters · 2023Article
- Auditory temporal resolution and backward masking in musicians with absolute pitch.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Use of explicit priming to phenotype absolute pitch ability.PloS one · 2022Article
- An Analysis of Music Perception Skills on Crowdsourcing Platforms.Frontiers in artificial intelligence · 2022Article
- Suppression of Pitch Labeling: No Evidence for an Impact of Absolute Pitch on Behavioral and Neurophysiological Measures of Cognitive Inhibition in an Auditory Go/Nogo Task.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Article
- Strategies Used by Musicians to Identify Notes' Pitch: Cognitive Bricks and Mental Representations.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Auditory T-Complex Reveals Reduced Neural Activities in the Right Auditory Cortex in Musicians With Absolute Pitch.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Article
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Abstract
Absolute pitch (AP) is defined as the ability to identify and label tones without reference to keyality. In this context, the main question is whether early or late processing stages are responsible for this ability. We investigated the electrophysiological responses to tones in AP and relative pitch (RP) possessors while participants listened attentively to sine tones. Since event-related potentials are particularly suited for tracking tone encoding (N100 and P200), categorization (N200), and mnemonic functions (N400), we hypothesized that differences in early pitch processing stages would be reflected by increased N100 and P200-related areas in AP musicians. Otherwise, differences in later cognitive stages of tone processing should be mirrored by increased N200 and/or N400 areas in AP musicians. AP possessors exhibited larger N100 areas and a tendency towards enhanced P200 areas. Furthermore, the sources of these components were estimated and statistically compared between the two groups for a set of a priori defined regions of interest. AP musicians demonstrated increased N100-related current densities in the right superior temporal sulcus, middle temporal gyrus, and Heschl's gyrus. Results are interpreted as indicating that early between-group differences in right-sided perisylvian brain regions might reflect auditory tone categorization rather than labelling mechanisms.
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