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 ...

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 ...

Using training videos to learn pitch classes, participants were then tested to see whether they could identify musical notes. After the first treatment, the average correct responses were 5.09 for ...