While working at the music and neuroimaging lab at Beth Israel/Harvard Medical School in Boston, Jake Mandell developed a quick online way to screen for the tonedeafness. It actually turned out to be a pretty good test to check for overall pitch perception ability. The test is purposefully made very hard, so excellent musicians rarely score above 80% correct. Give it a try!
In their research, they were looking for neuro-anatomical correlates of tonedeafness (called "congenital amusia" in the scientific literature. The test you are about to take was used as a screening test to roughly characterize a patient’s pitch discrimination and musical memory abilities. Even though musical memory is strongly tested here, they have found that people who are tonedeaf tend to have normal musical memories.
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(After completing the test, your score will be automatically and anonymously submitted.)
