Absolute Pitch Does Not Depend on Early Musical Training

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 999, Issue , 2003, Pages 522-526

  Ross, David A ^a   Olson, Ingrid R ^b   Gore, John C ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute pitch (AP); Learning; Tonal memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; SKILL;

EID: 0346308203     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1284.065     Document Type: Conference Paper

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