2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Interactions between auditory representations of musical pitch and pitch coding
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21500256
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Cognitive science
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| Research Institution | Niigata University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Keywords | 絶対音感 / 音楽的音高 / 認知的干渉 |
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| Research Abstract |
Experiments on cognitive interference were carried out using vocal stimuli sung with syllables congruent and incongruent with their pitches. Performance of the musical pitch identification task was interfered by incongruent pitch labels. In particular, participants with absolute pitch were influenced by pitch processing when shadowing syllables and showed a degraded performance in the syllable task. A large-scale test on absolute pitch revealed that prevalence of absolute pitch is much higher than ever believed in Japanese music students.
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