Conceptual coherence but methodological mayhem: A systematic review of absolute pitch phenotyping.

Abstract excerpt

Despite extensive research on absolute pitch (AP), there remains no gold-standard task to measure its presence or extent. This systematic review investigated the methods of pitch-naming tasks for the classification of individuals with AP and examined how our understanding of the AP phenotype is affected by variability in the tasks used to measure it. Data extracted from 160 studies (N = 23,221 participants)...

Topics

• Humans
• Phenotype
• Pitch Perception