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I'm not sure what you mean.

> Absolute pitch (AP), often called perfect pitch, is the ability to identify or re-create a given musical note without the benefit of a reference tone. [Wikipedia]

This is what I'm describing: knowing a song well enough that you can 'hear' it in your head, and use that to accurately identify and re-create a note from it. This is a few more steps than being able to simply 'know' a note upon hearing it but nonetheless can demonstrate the capacity to do so for those who haven't specifically practiced it.



This study is specifically about the ability to identify heard tones.

It's literally the first line of the abstract:

> Absolute pitch (AP) refers to the ability to identify the pitch of a tone without external references.




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