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Absolute Pitch in Infant Auditory Learning: Evidence for Developmental
Reorganization

            Jenny R. Saffran and Gregory J. Griepentrog
            University of Wisconsin‹Madison

            To what extent do infants represent the absolute pitches of
complex auditory
            stimuli? Two experiments with 8-month-old infants examined the
use of absolute
            and relative pitch cues in a tone-sequence statistical learning
task. The results
            suggest that, given unsegmented stimuli that do not conform to
the rules of
            musical composition, infants are more likely to track patterns
of absolute pitches
            than of relative pitches. A 3rd experiment tested adults with or
without musical
            training on the same statistical learning tasks used in the
infant experiments.
            Unlike the infants, adult listeners relied primarily on relative
pitch cues. These
            results suggest a shift from an initial focus on absolute pitch
to the eventual
            dominance of relative pitch, which, it is argued, is more useful
for both music
            and speech processing.

            Developmental Psychology, 2001, Vol. 37, No. 1, 74­85, ©2001
American
            Psychological Association


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