Music proficiency and quantification of absolute pitch: a large-scale study among Brazilian musicians

Absolute pitch (AP) is the ability to identify and name the pitch of a sound without external reference. Often, accuracy and speed at naming isolated musical pitches are correlated with demographic, biological and acoustical parameters to gain insight into the genesis and evolution of this ability i...

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Main Authors: Raphael Bender Chagas Leite, Sérgio Arthuro Mota-Rolim, Claudio M T Queiroz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2016.00447/full