The research sheds light on the evolution of vocal communication and song, suggesting that aspects of pitch perception might have developed over 40 million years ago. A summary of the findings was ...

The specialized human ability to perceive the sound quality known as 'pitch' can no longer be listed as unique to humans. Researchers report new behavioral evidence that marmosets, ancient monkeys, ...

In speech and music, complexes of tones are perceived as having a single 'pitch,' a term referring to the subjective highness or lowness of sound. Pitch extraction is crucial in the perception of ...

A tiny primate, the marmoset, appears to process pitch perception the same way we do, implying that the ability evolved in a common ancestor at least 40 million years ago. Ten years ago, researchers ...

Congenital amusia, often referred to as tone-deafness, is a neurodevelopmental disorder that specifically impairs the fine-grained discrimination of pitch. This condition affects a small but ...

Unlike US residents, people in a remote area of the Bolivian rain forest usually do not perceive the similarities between two versions of the same note played at different registers, an octave apart.

Mozart had it; Leonard Bernstein had it; even Jimi Hendrix reportedly had perfect pitch – the ability to recognise a musical note without a reference tone. Now it seems that orchestral tuning may be ...

Western ears consider a pitch at double the frequency of a lower pitch to be the same note, an octave higher. The Tsimane’, an indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon basin, do not. “If you only test ...

University of Surrey provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Absolute pitch has long been viewed as a kind of musical superpower. It refers to the ability to identify or produce ...

Researchers from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid are applying stereoscopic 3-D to record exercises on offside position for the FIFA to use as teaching material in professional training courses ...

Conventional wisdom holds that you're either born with perfect pitch or you're not. The conventional wisdom is wrong. Here's how to train perfect pitch. For my book Brain Trust, I interviewed Diana ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- People who are accustomed to listening to Western music, which is based on a system of notes organized in octaves, can usually perceive the similarity between notes that are same but ...