N100m in children possessing absolute pitch.

Full Abstract

We recorded the auditory evoked magnetic fields from children with and without absolute pitch under the following conditions:
(a) hearing 1000 Hz pure tones inattentively, (b) hearing eight random tones inattentively and (c) listening to eight random tones and identifying each tone. We calculated the appearance rate of N100m as the ratio of the subjects who had N100m. There was a significant positive correlation between the appearance rate of N100m and age in both groups. There was also a significant positive correlation between the appearance rate of N100m and the kinds of the task only in children without absolute pitch. These results suggest that, in the children with absolute pitch, N100m was elicited equally in every session because of their automatically driven auditory attention. No significant correlation was found between the appearance rate of N100m and the possession of absolute pitch.

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Author information

Author/s: Hirose, Hiroyuki (H); Kubota, Masaya (M); Kimura, Ikumi (I); Yumoto, Masato (M); Sakakihara, Yoichi (Y);

Affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8655 Japan. hirose-h(-atsign-)kb3.so-net.ne.jp

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Neuroreport (Neuroreport), published in England. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2003-May; vol 14 (issue 6) : pp 899-903

Dates: Created 2003/07/14; Completed 2003/08/22; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 12858057, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Acoustic Stimulation
Age Factors
Attention - physiology
Brain - physiology
Child
Evoked Potentials, Auditory

Female
Humans
Magnetoencephalography
Male
Music
Pitch Discrimination - physiology

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