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  • Title: [Environmental and electrophysiologic study of absolute hearing].
    Author: Chouard CH.
    Journal: Bull Acad Natl Med; 1990 Jan; 174(1):17-26; discussion 26-8. PubMed ID: 2350709.
    Abstract:
    Absolute pitch (AP) is the ability to name a note without any reference, since relative pitch (RP) needs for a previous and known tone to be able of such a recognition. We suggest that AP is due to both environmental features and physiological particularity. From the responses of 263 musicians including 169 AP we observed that for AP musical environment in childhood was better and younger the age of instrumental beginning than for RP. The study of otoacoustic emissions evoked by a supraliminal stimulation in 183 musician ears including 68 AP showed that the echo was significantly greater in case of AP than in case of RP.
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