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Absolute pitch revisited
Author(s) -
Wynn Ver Thomas
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1992.tb02428.x
Subject(s) - semitone , psychology , absolute (philosophy) , variation (astronomy) , audiology , absolute pitch , statistics , standard deviation , relative pitch , mathematics , perception , physics , philosophy , medicine , epistemology , neuroscience , astrophysics
The absolute pitch ability (AP) of three female and two male subjects has been investigated over many years. The pitch estimates of A4 (440 Hz) of four of the subjects varied by up to a semitone during the longitudinal study. The fifth subject showed no noticeable variation in his estimates of A4. Standard deviations calculated from the data showed no significant variation with age.