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- Most people, even without formal music training, can accurately remember pitches in familiar songs, but their accuracy can vary.
- A study with 108 participants found connections between singing accuracy, tonal short-term memory (STM), and absolute pitch memory (APM), confirming earlier research.
- The results showed that tonal STM and singing accuracy are linked, and that tonal STM fully mediates the relationship between APM and singing accuracy, supporting models that explain how we match pitches vocally.
Article Abstract
Most individuals, regardless of formal musical training, have long-term absolute pitch memory (APM) for familiar musical recordings, though with varying levels of accuracy. The present study followed up on recent evidence suggesting an association between singing accuracy and APM (Halpern & Pfordresher, 2022, Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 84(1), 260-269), as well as tonal short-term memory (STM) and APM (Van Hedger et al., 2018, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(4), 879-891). Participants from three research sites (n = 108) completed a battery of tasks including APM, tonal STM, singing accuracy, and self-reported auditory imagery. Both tonal STM and singing accuracy predicted APM, replicating prior results. Tonal STM also predicted singing accuracy, music training, and auditory imagery. Further tests suggested that the association between APM and singing accuracy was fully mediated by tonal STM. This pattern comports well with models of vocal pitch matching that include STM for pitch as a mechanism for sensorimotor translation.
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