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Jacoby et al. use sung reproduction of tones to explore pitch perception cross-culturally. US and native Amazonian listeners exhibit deterioration of pitch at high frequencies and logarithmic mental scaling of pitch. However, sung correlates of octave equivalence are undetectable in Amazonians, suggesting effects of culture-specific experience.

Universal and Non-universal Features of Musical Pitch Perception Revealed by Singing