PSC 136 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Absolute Pitch, Cerebral Cortex, Agraphia
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Absolute pitch, the ability to recognize the pitch of a note or produce any given note without an external reference. The impairment can be congenital ( present from birth) or acquired through an environmental factors such as a stroke. Also used to refer to psychological phenomena that arise from peripheral (sensory) processes. Often contrasted with top - down or knowledge - driven psychological phenomena: caudal, back, cerebral cortex, the bulk of what we think of as the brain. Empirical research tests hypotheses through experiment or observation: entrainment, falling into synchrony with, in sync, flat, below true or normal pitch. A semitone lower than a specified note: frequency, the rate at which something occurs or is repeated over a particular period of time. Modes are distinguished by the pattern of skips ( over semitones) between adjacent notes of the scale: modulation, the movement of a piece of music from 1 key to another.
