People with Absolute Pitch Process Tones Without Producing a P300
- 23 March 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 223 (4642) , 1306-1309
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.223.4642.1306
Abstract
The P300 is a positive-going component of the event-related potential. In subjects with absolute, or "perfect," pitch, the P300 elicited by the less frequent of two auditory probes is small or absent. In these subjects, visual probes elicit a normal P300. These results support the view of P300 as a manifestation of the updating of working memory.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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