Absolute pitch trainer serial professional#

Absolute pitch trainer serial professional#

Professional musicians are further trained to determine the exact amount of the relative difference between two pitches in terms of musical intervals. Most people perceive pitch not in absolute but rather in relative terms, i.e., they register whether a pitch is higher or lower compared to a previous pitch. Pitch is one of the main perceptual properties of musical tones. It is possible that, depending on the context, pitch labeling in AP musicians is not entirely automatic and can be suppressed.

The event-related potentials (ERPs) were, however, modulated by the Nogo condition, probably indicating an effect of stimulus similarity. N2d and P3d amplitudes of AP musicians were also comparable to those of non-AP musicians. Our data provided no evidence for an increased difficulty to inhibit a prepotent response or to suppress conflicting pitch-labeling information in AP: AP musicians showed similar commission error rates as non-AP musicians in both Nogo conditions. If pitch labeling cannot be suppressed, the conflicting information would be expected to increase the inhibitory load in AP musicians. The second Nogo condition tested the suppressibility of the pitch labeling using a Stroop-like effect: the two tones belonged to the same pitch class but were not identical in terms of tone frequency. The first Nogo condition tested if auditory-related inhibition processes are generally altered in AP musicians. The task comprised two Nogo conditions: a Nogo condition with pitch differences larger than one semitone, and a second Nogo condition with pitch differences of only a quarter semitone. In the current study, we used a cued auditory Go/Nogo task requiring same/different decisions to investigate both behavioral and electrophysiological correlates of increased inhibitory demands related to automatic pitch labeling. Previous studies have shown that pitch labeling in AP can interfere with task demands.

Pitch labeling in absolute pitch (AP), the ability to recognize the pitch class of a sound without an external reference, is effortless, fast, and presumably automatic.