Re: AUDITORY Digest - 12 Aug 2008 to 13 Aug 2008 (#2008-162)

[Daniel Levitin <levitin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't consider the findings controversial.  I found essentially the 
same thing in unpublished work I did in 1996. Probably the only 
reason for the low number of citations for Fujisaki and Kashino is 
that there hasn't been a lot written on AP since 2002.

Dan Levitin


> Date:    Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:40:24 -0400
> From:    "Bruno L. Giordano" <bruno.giordano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Absolute pitch & discrimination abilities
>
> Dear list,
>
> some time ago I read a paper that compares discrimination abilities in
> absolute pitch (AP) and relative pitch listeners (Fujisaki and Kashino,
> 2002).
>
> The paper reports some experiments showing that AP possessors do not
> have superior frequency, temporal and spatial resolution; along these
> lines is the review by Levitin and Rogers (2005): "AP possessors do not
> have an exceptional acuity".
>
> I apologize for my ignorance of the rather vast literature on AP: my
> question is whether the findings by Fujisaki and Kashino (2002) are
> controversial or absolutely uncontroversial (they are cited only three
> times, including the Wikipedia entry on absolute pitch).
>
> Thank you.
>
> All the best,
>
> 	Bruno