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Two experiments were conducted to examine the effect of absolute-pitch possession on relativepitch processing. Listeners attempted to identify melodic intervals ranging from a semitone to an octave with different reference tones. Listeners with absolute pitch showed declined performance when the reference was out-of-tune C, out-of-tune E, or F#, relative to when the reference was C. In contrast, listeners who had no absolute pitch maintained relatively high performance in all reference conditions. These results suggest that absolute-pitch listeners are weak in relative-pitch processing and show a tendency to rely on absolute pitch in relative-pitch tasks.
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This research was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
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Miyazaki, K. Perception of relative pitch with different references: Some absolute-pitch listeners can’t tell musical interval names. Perception & Psychophysics 57, 962–970 (1995). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03205455
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