Yo-Jung Han and I are pleased to present a poster of our recently completed research project, An Investigation of Multimodal Imagery Employed by Ear Players without Absolute Pitch, at the 14th International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition in San Francisco this week. For this project, we delved deep into the minds and processes of six very generous and patient ear playing musicians of varying backgrounds, including musical theatre, jazz, Irish, and classical, to get a closer look at how they do what they do.

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