Short-term pitch memory predicts both incidentally and intentionally acquired absolute pitch categories.
Tonal short-term memory has been positively associated with both incidentally acquired absolute pitch memory (e.g., for popular songs) and explicitly learned absolute pitch (AP) categories; however, the relationship between these constructs has not been directly tested within the same individuals. T...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 53; no. 6; pp. 1836 - 1849 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=187671954&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 187671954 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 0090502X MEG jtl: Memory & Cognition issn: 0090502X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Aug2025 vid: 53 iid: 6 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 187671954 10.3758/s13421-025-01686-0 ppf: 1836 ppct: 13 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.4MB tig: atl: Short-term pitch memory predicts both incidentally and intentionally acquired absolute pitch categories. aug: au: Van Hedger, Stephen C. Jovanovic, Katarina Grenier, Andrè Hoh, Sum Yee affil: https://ror.org/02grkyz14 Department of Psychology, Huron University College at Western, 1349 Western Road, N6G 1H3, London, ON, Canada https://ror.org/02grkyz14 Department of Psychology and Western Institute for Neuroscience, Western University, ON, N6A 3K7, London, Canada su: Music Language & languages Recognition (Psychology) Task performance Cognition Research funding Musical perception Short-term memory Auditory perception Factor analysis Human voice Psychoacoustics Musical pitch sug: subj: Music Language & languages Recognition (Psychology) Task performance Cognition Research funding Musical perception Short-term memory Auditory perception Factor analysis Human voice Psychoacoustics Musical pitch keyword: Absolute pitch Categorization Generalization Memory Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Psychology Absolute pitch Categorization Generalization Memory Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Psychology ab: Tonal short-term memory has been positively associated with both incidentally acquired absolute pitch memory (e.g., for popular songs) and explicitly learned absolute pitch (AP) categories; however, the relationship between these constructs has not been directly tested within the same individuals. The current study investigated how tonal short-term memory relates to both incidentally and intentionally acquired AP. Participants (n = 192) completed a tonal short-term memory task, an incidental AP task, and an AP categorization task. The tonal short-term assessment involved adjusting a starting tone to match a target tone. The incidental AP task involved judging whether excerpts of popular songs were presented in the correct key. The AP categorization task involved associating six pitch chroma categories with arbitrary labels, including a generalization test that used Shepard tones to discourage pitch height cues. We found that all three pitch measures were positively correlated with one another. Critically, however, we found that tonal short-term memory fully mediated the relationship between incidental AP and explicit AP categorization. This finding held even when controlling for musical training and tonal language fluency. Overall, these results suggest that pitch memory is a consistent individual difference measure across different timescales and different measures (e.g., incidental measures, explicit measures). However, tonal short-term memory appears to be foundational to both incidentally acquired and explicitly learned AP categories. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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