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Peer reviewedSaffran, Jenny R.; Griepentrog, Gregory J. – Developmental Psychology, 2001
Two experiments examined 8-month-olds' use of absolute and relative pitch cues in a tone-sequence statistical learning task. Results suggest that, given unsegmented stimuli that do not conform to rules of musical composition, infants are more likely to track patterns of absolute pitches than of relative pitches. A third experiment found that adult…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Auditory Perception, Comparative Analysis
