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Title: | Octave bias in an absolute pitch identification task | Authors: | Boschetti, Giulia Prpic, Valter De Tommaso, Matteo Murgia, Mauro Agostini, Tiziano |
Keywords: | absolute pitch identification; octave bias; underestimation; overestimation; music psychology | Issue Date: | 2014 | Publisher: | EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste | Source: | Giulia Boschetti, Valter Prpic, Matteo De Tommaso, Mauro Murgia, Tiziano Agostini, "Octave bias in an absolute pitch identification task" in: Paolo Bernardis, Carlo Fantoni, Walter Gerbino (eds.) "TSPC2014. Proceedings of the Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition, November 27-28", Trieste, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2014, pp. 94-96. | Abstract: | Octave errors are common within musicians, even among absolute pitch possessors. Overall, evidence shows pitch class and octave to be perceived in a different way, even if they are highly connected. We investigated whether pitch class perception, in an absolute pitch identification task, can be influenced by the octave context, examined among two consecutive octaves. Participants, all musicians with formal musical education, showed different response patterns in the two octaves even if the octave context was explicitly told to be task irrelevant. The direction of errors revealed a consistent tendency to underestimate pitch height in the lowest octave and to overestimate pitch height in the highest octave. Thus, pitch class identification showed to be biased by the octave context. These results are discussed in terms of polarity and pitch enhancement. |
Type: | Book Chapter | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10077/10523 | eISBN: | 978-88-8303-610-1 |
Appears in Collections: | TSPC2014: Proceedings of the Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition, November 27th-28th 2014 |
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