Re: Do dogs have absolute pitch?

[Tom Brennan <g_brennantg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wouldn't that be confusing perfect pitch with the physiological ability to
reproduce a pitch?

I know that when training dogs as service animals I sometimes use large pitch
differences such as smoke alarms vs door bells as a part of training but my
impression has never been that dogs have perfect pitch.  Then again, it seems
that it would be a fairly simple thing to test with a computerized audiometer
<g>.

Tom


Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html

On Wed, 16 May 2012, Brian Gygi wrote:

> Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 09:12:35 +0000
> From: Brian Gygi <bgygi@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Do dogs have absolute pitch?
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> Yes, could you train a dog to howl at 440? That would be a test of the theory :)
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> Brian Gygi, Ph.D.
> Senior Research Fellow
> National Biomedical Research Unit in Hearing
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Mathias [mailto:smathias@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 01:50 AM
> To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Do dogs have absolute pitch?
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> The owner is clearly signalling: skip ahead to the end of the video, where you can actually see her move her body and look at the correct key before the dog responds. Since dogs can pick up on some truly amazing cues from their owners (e.g., they can be trained to predict epileptic seizures), I think a well-trained dog could accomplish this easily.
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> On 16 May 2012 02:15, Kevin Austin <kevin.austin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> http://www.wimp.com/dogpitch/
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