Audio-visual interactions uniquely contribute to resolution of visual conflict in people possessing absolute pitch.

ABSTRACT: Individuals possessing absolute pitch (AP) are able to identify a given musical tone or to reproduce it without reference to another tone. The present study sought to learn whether this exceptional auditory ability impacts visual perception under stimulus conditions that provoke visual competition in the form of binocular rivalry. Nineteen adult participants with 3-19 years of musical training were divided into two groups according to their performance on a task involving identification of the specific note associated with hearing a given musical pitch. During test trials lasting just over half a minute, participants dichoptically viewed a scrolling musical score presented to one eye and a drifting sinusoidal grating presented to the other eye; throughout the trial they pressed buttons to

SUBMITTER: Kim S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5381860 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature