Absolute pitch: Music and beyond

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 578-601

  Ross, David A ^a   Gore, John C ^b   Marks, Lawrence E ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute pitch; Music; Perfect pitch; Preattentive processing

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MEMORY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTATION; HEARING; HISTORY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MUSIC; MUSICIAN; NEUROBIOLOGY; PHENOMENOLOGY; PITCH; PREDICTION; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; BRAIN; HUMANS; LEARNING; MEMORY; MUSIC; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PITCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 29544445955     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2005.05.019     Document Type: Review

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