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Absolute Pitch in Infant Auditory Learning: Evidence for Developmental Reorganization <BR>
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Jenny R. Saffran and Gregory J. Griepentrog <BR>
University of Wisconsin‹Madison <BR>
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To what extent do infants represent the absolute pitches of complex auditory<BR>
stimuli? Two experiments with 8-month-old infants examined the use of absolute<BR>
and relative pitch cues in a tone-sequence statistical learning task. The results<BR>
suggest that, given unsegmented stimuli that do not conform to the rules of<BR>
musical composition, infants are more likely to track patterns of absolute pitches<BR>
than of relative pitches. A 3rd experiment tested adults with or without musical<BR>
training on the same statistical learning tasks used in the infant experiments.<BR>
Unlike the infants, adult listeners relied primarily on relative pitch cues. These<BR>
results suggest a shift from an initial focus on absolute pitch to the eventual<BR>
dominance of relative pitch, which, it is argued, is more useful for both music<BR>
and speech processing. <BR>
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Developmental Psychology, 2001, Vol. 37, No. 1, 7485, ©2001 American<BR>
Psychological Association <BR>
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