Abstract:Adults perceive pitch with fine precision, an ability ascribed to cortical functions that are also important for speech and music perception. Infants display neural immaturity in the auditory cortex, suggesting that pitch discrimination may improve throughout infancy. In three experiments, we tested the limits of pitch and timbre perception in 66 infants and 44 adults. Contrary to expectations, we found that infants surpassed adults in detecting subtle changes in pitch in the presence of random variations in t… Show more
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