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Inadequate pitch-difference sensitivity prevents half of all listeners from discriminating major vs minor tone sequences

Substantial evidence suggests that sensitivity to the difference between the major vs minor musical scales may be bimodally distributed. Much of this evidence comes from experiments using the “3-task.” On each trial in the 3-task, the listener hears a rapid, random sequence of tones containing equal...

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Published in:The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2022-05, Vol.151 (5), p.3152-3163
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