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Long‐Term Memory for Pitch in Six‐Month‐Old Infants
Author(s) -
PLANTINGA JUDY,
TRAINOR LAUREL J.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1196/annals.1284.064
Subject(s) - melody , term (time) , relative pitch , audiology , absolute pitch , short term memory , pitch perception , psychology , long term memory , cognitive psychology , medicine , cognition , working memory , musical , physics , neuroscience , literature , perception , art , quantum mechanics
A bstract : We examined 6‐month‐old infants' long‐term memory representations for the pitch of familiar melodies. Infants remembered the relative pitch of the melodies, but the absolute pitch was either not remembered or not a particularly salient attribute.