Subject: Re: AW: absolute pitch & animals From: Pawel Kusmierek <p.kusmierek(at)NENCKI.GOV.PL> Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 13:45:00 +0200Robert Zatorre said: > In fact, musicians without AP can sometimes achieve what may be called > pseudo-AP in that they develop a long-term memory for a single reference > note (e.g., many orchestra musicians can reliably identify A 440 because > they've heard it so often). I was told that a similar phenomenon occurs in professional audio equipment and radio technicians, who develop a pseudo-AP for reference tones, e.g. 1 kHz. -- Pawel Kusmierek Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology ul. Pasteura 3 02-093 Warsaw, Poland phone: (+48 22) 58 92 388 fax: (+48 22) 822 53 42 email: p.kusmierek(at)nencki.gov.pl