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Lilach Akiva-Kabiri¹, Avishai Henik

¹Department of Psychology and the Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. lilach.akiva@gmail.com

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience of Music
Auditory Perception

Background:

The Stroop task traditionally assesses selective attention and automaticity.
The auditory-visual Stroop effect reveals how auditory and visual stimuli interact.
Automaticity of pitch processing is not well understood, especially in absolute pitch (AP) possessors.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the automaticity of pitch processing in absolute pitch (AP) possessors versus musically trained non-AP (nAP) individuals.
To compare performance on two auditory-visual Stroop-like tasks: tone naming and note naming.
To determine if AP possessors exhibit different patterns of interference compared to nAP individuals.

Main Methods:

Two auditory-visual Stroop-like tasks were designed: tone naming (naming auditory tone, ignoring visual note) and note naming (reading visual note, ignoring auditory tone).
Participants included individuals with absolute pitch (AP) and musically trained individuals without AP (nAP).
Congruency effects were measured to assess interference between auditory pitch and visual notation.

Main Results:

The nAP group showed a significant congruency effect only in the tone naming task.
AP possessors demonstrated a significant congruency effect exclusively in the note naming task.
AP possessors were unable to ignore auditory tones when reading note names, indicating automatic pitch processing.

Conclusions:

Pitch identification is automatic and difficult to suppress in individuals with absolute pitch ability.
AP possessors exhibit a reversed Stroop pattern compared to nAP individuals, suggesting distinct attentional mechanisms.
These findings contribute to understanding the cognitive underpinnings of absolute pitch.