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Science 23 March 1984:
Vol. 223. no. 4642, pp. 1306 - 1309
DOI: 10.1126/science.223.4642.1306
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People with Absolute Pitch Process Tones Without Producing a P300

MARK KLEIN 1, MICHAEL G. H. COLES 1, and EMANUEL DONCHIN 1

1 Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Champaign 61820

The P300 is a positive-going component of the event-related potential. In subjects with absolute, or "perfect," pitch, the P300 elicited by the less frequent of two auditory probes is small or absent. In these subjects, visual probes elicit a normal P300. These results support the view of P300 as a manifestation of the updating of working memory.

Submitted on October 18, 1983
Accepted on October 28, 1983


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