PSY 447LEC Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Pitch Shift, Long-Term Memory, Semitone
Document Summary
Implicit pitch memory: latent (implicit) absolute pitch. Tested in singing, tune recognition, and pitch adjustment tasks. Stable pitch reproductions for songs that have no established pitch. Accurate singing of starting pitches for familiar songs (levitin, 1994) 81% within 2 semitones for at least one song. Tune recognition: identify correct version of familiar tune from one that is pitch-shifted. Pros: avoids singing ability confound and confusion of hearing semitone shifted versions. Cons: still relies on singing, pitch adjusting is a skill. Pitch adjustment - think of starting pitch of a familiar song, use pitch adjustor to select correct pitch. Chunking: grouping of smaller units into larger one in incremental way. Content addressable: explicit, consciously accessible long- term memory.
