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Absolute Pitch in Naturalistic Singing: A Commentary on Olthof et al. (2015)
Empirical Musicology Review, 2015 The parent article looks at pitch stability in an archive of folksongs recorded over several decades. Some evidence for pitch stability was found. Here, I consider some additional aspects of the archive that could be examined, offer some extensions to ...
Andrea Halpern
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In “Tone” with dogs: exploring canine musicality
Animal CognitionThis study investigates the musical perception skills of dogs through playback experiments. Dogs were trained to distinguish between two different target locations based on a sequence of four ascending or descending notes. A total of 16 dogs of different
Claudia Pinelli +4 more
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Auditory category knowledge in experts and novices
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2014 What do listeners know about sounds that have a systematic organization? Research suggests that listeners store absolute pitch information as part of their representations for specific auditory experiences.
Shannon eHeald +2 more
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Moderating variables of music training-induced neuroplasticity: a review and discussion
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 A large body of literature now exists to substantiate the long-held idea that musicians' brains differ structurally and functionally from nonmusicians' brains.
Dawn Louise Merrett +2 more
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Frontiers in PsychologyAbsolute pitch (AP) is often regarded as a rare gift, yet Western tonal music relies more on relative pitch (RP), which encodes meaning through intervals to the keynote (tonic).
Karen Shibayama +2 more
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Absolute Pitch in Oral Transmission of Folk Tunes as Constrained Random Walks
Empirical Musicology Review, 2015 In this commentary, I would like to add a few of our own, still unpublished, empirical observations concerning the possible role of absolute pitch memory (APM) in the oral transmission of folksongs.
Klaus Frieler
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Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionThis study investigates the mechanisms underlying pitch class–color synesthesia, a cognitive trait in which musical pitches evoke color perceptions.
Ang Cao, Kazuhiro Ueda
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Revisiting the pitch angle of the cutting edge of the plough-share to the furrow bottom
Сельскохозяйственные машины и технологии, 2015 Mold board soil cultivating is the most power-intensive operation in crop production. Decrease of power consumption of plowing by the plow body is possible in case of change of the pitch angle of the cutting edge to the furrow bottom. Thus cutting by the
S. I. Starovoytov +2 more
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Recognition of melodies by absolute pitch- and non absolute pitch possessors
The Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association, 2010 openaire +2 more sources