Long-term memory for pitch in six-month-old infants

Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2003 Nov:999:520-1. doi: 10.1196/annals.1284.064.

Abstract

We examined 6-month-old infants' long-term memory representations for the pitch of familiar melodies. Infants remembered the relative pitch of the melodies, but the absolute pitch was either not remembered or not a particularly salient attribute.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Age Factors
  • Brain / growth & development*
  • Brain / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Pitch Perception / physiology*
  • Recognition, Psychology / physiology*