In fact, this ability is rare enough that society celebrates people who can label musical notes heard spontaneously: They are said to have “perfect pitch,” or “absolute pitch” as scientists who study ...

People with perfect pitch have the rare ability of identifying a musical note as easily as most of us can look at an object and name that color. Scientists now believe that's because their brains ...

We perceive some sounds as having no pitch – a knock on a door, for example. We can distinguish if this sound is high or low, but we can’t assign it a musical note. Pitch is only perceived ...