Science news articles about 'perfect pitch'

... note groups to a different key without the knowledge of the students. Students who unconsciously used perfect pitch to indentify notes stumbled over the transpositions. They heard them as a new ...

... in 10,000 is thought to have it. Often lumped into the mysterious realm of Talent, perfect pitch is – according to Diana Deutsch of the University of California, San Diego – probably more the result ...

... plan to analyze candidate genes for variations that might be associated with perfect pitch in participants of European ancestry. For comparison, they also will recruit and study individuals of ...

Ben Goldacre: We would all do well to remember that elaborate runic rituals behind the scenes can have an enormous impact on what is heard

... applied. After reading Oliver Sack's recent book Musicophilia, we like the idea of trying to develop perfect pitch in our daughter, but we have formed no coordinated plan to do this, and I think it ...

Derek Paravicini has absolute pitch, which is better than perfect pitch.