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15157978

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-10-13
pubmed:abstractText
Absolute pitch (AP) perception refers to the ability to identify, classify, and memorize pitches without use of an external reference pitch. In tests of AP, several species were trained to sort contiguous tones into three or eight frequency ranges, based on correlations between responding to tones in each frequency range and reinforcement. Two songbird species, zebra finches and white-throated sparrows, and a parrot species, budgerigars had highly accurate AP, they discriminated both three and eight ranges with precision. Relative to normally reared songbirds, isolate reared songbirds had impaired AP. Two mammalian species, humans and rats, had equivalent and weak AP, they discriminated three frequency ranges to a lackluster standard and they acquired only a crude discrimination of the lowest and highest of eight frequency ranges. In comparisons with mammals even isolate songbirds had more accurate AP than humans and rats.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0376-6357
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
30
pubmed:volume
66
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
289-307
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
A behavior analysis of absolute pitch: sex, experience, and species.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6. ron@psyc.queensu.ca
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't