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ArticleMemory & cognition2024

Is Hey Jude in the right key? Cognitive components of absolute pitch memory.

Stephen C Van Hedger, Andrea R Halpern, David J Vollweiler, Evan E Smith, Peter Q Pfordresher

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Article in Memory & cognition, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Stephen C Van HedgerDepartment of Psychology, Huron University College at Western, London, ON, Canada. svanhedg@uwo.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-2448-9088
Andrea R HalpernDepartment of Psychology, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6384-6490
David J VollweilerDepartment of Psychology, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA.ORCID 0009-0004-3971-0891
Evan E SmithDepartment of Psychology, Huron University College at Western, London, ON, Canada.ORCID 0009-0005-3751-7745
Peter Q PfordresherDepartment of Psychology, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7024-0785
University at Buffalo, State University of New York · USWestern University · CABucknell University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most individuals, regardless of formal musical training, have long-term absolute pitch memory (APM) for familiar musical recordings, though with varying levels of accuracy. The present study followed up on recent evidence suggesting an association between singing accuracy and APM (Halpern & Pfordresher, 2022, Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 84(1), 260-269), as well as tonal short-term memory (STM) and APM (Van Hedger et al., 2018, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(4), 879-891). Participants from three research sites (n = 108) completed a battery of tasks including APM, tonal STM, singing accuracy, and self-reported auditory imagery. Both tonal STM and singing accuracy predicted APM, replicating prior results. Tonal STM also predicted singing accuracy, music training, and auditory imagery. Further tests suggested that the association between APM and singing accuracy was fully mediated by tonal STM. This pattern comports well with models of vocal pitch matching that include STM for pitch as a mechanism for sensorimotor translation.

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Memory, Short-TermMusicPitch PerceptionAdolescentAdultFemaleHumansImaginationMaleMemory, Long-TermSingingYoung AdultImageryLong-term memoryPitchShort-term memorySinging

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PMID38347258
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