Absolute pitch revisited.
The absolute pitch ability (AP) of three female and two male subjects has been investigated over many years. The pitch estimates of A4 (440 Hz) of four of the subjects varied by up to a semitone during the longitudinal study. The fifth subject showed no noticeable variation in his estimates of A4. Standard deviations calculated from the data showed no significant variation with age.
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Department of Physics, University of Exeter, UK.
D000328:Adult; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D001288:Attention; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008597:Menstrual Cycle / Q000523:psychology; D011939:Mental Recall; D008875:Middle Aged; D010897:Pitch Discrimination; D011571:Psychoacoustics