Listener perceptual sensitivity to interval transposition size will determine the accuracy of interval comparisons.

Evidence

A posthoc multiple comparison analysis showed that there was a tendency for large transpositions to impair performance more than small transpositions. Performance correlated positively with musical experience; years of formal training (correlation coefficient = 0.342, p = 0.015), as well as years of playing (correlation coefficient = 0.435, p = 0.002). — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5312