title: [Contribution to the study of the perfect pitch].
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 otoacustic emissions evoked by a supraliminar stimulation in 183 musicians ears including 68 AP showed that the echo was significantly greater in case of AP than in case of RP.
authors: Laboratoire de Recherches ORL, CHU Paris-St-Antoine.
authors: C H
authors: CH
authors: Chouard
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Sposetti
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001288:Attention; D004777:Environment; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006309:Hearing / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D012001:Hyperacusis / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009146:Music; D010898:Pitch Perception; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
vernacular_title: Contribution a l'étude de l'oreille absolue.