People with absolute pitch process tones with producing P300

doi:10.1016/S0304-3940(02)00812-1

Neuroscience Letters

Volume 330, Issue 3, 27 September 2002, Pages 247-250

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Abstract

We recorded a P300 component of event-related potentials associated with auditory oddball tasks in nine absolute pitch (AP) possessors and seven non-AP possessors. The previous studies demonstrated that AP possessors did not appear to employ working memory during auditory oddball tasks because they have a fixed tonal template in their memories. However, the present findings showed that the AP possessors exhibited similar P300 as the non-AP possessors and did update the tonal context in the auditory oddball tasks. This result suggests that the AP possessors do not always refer to the fixed tonal template in their memories when executing the oddball tasks and they employ working memory properly according to the difficulty of the auditory tasks.

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We thank YAMAHA Music Foundation, Ichion-kai Music School and Ms Ayako Sakakibara for their supports to the experiment.

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People with absolute pitch process tones with producing P300

Abstract

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Acknowledgements

Am. J. Hum. Genet.

Electroenceph. clin. Neurophysiol.

Am. J. Hum. Genet.

Absolute pitch

J. Acoust. Soc. Am.

Neural processing of musical timbre by musicians, non-musicians, and musicians possessing absolute pitch

J. Acoust. Soc. Am.

Temporal and sequential probability in evoked potential studies

Can. J. Psychol.

Is the target-to-target interval a critical determinant of P3 amplitude?

Psychophysiology

Early childhood music education and predisposition to absolute pitch: teasing apart genes and environment

Am. J. Med. Genet.