It’s the rare ability that allows me to put a note to every sound that I hear, and I mean every sound. For example, I will hear a bird chirp and think to myself, “Oh, that’s G sharp!” My perfect pitch ...

Play a note, any note — on your piano, your harp, your synthesizer, your kazoo. University of Delaware junior David Krall can tell you exactly which note you’re playing and which octave it lives in.

Absolute pitch is an ability rarely found in the population. Also known as ‘perfect pitch’, it refers to the ability to name a musical note (like C or C-sharp) just by hearing a tone. Importantly, ...

Both light and sound travel as waves, with characteristics that allow people with typical vision and hearing to perceive and categorize them when they reach their eyes and ears: “That’s a small red ...

In his book "Musicophilia," renowned neuroscientist Oliver Sacks described the remarkable ability of Sir Frederick Ouseley, a former music professor at the University of Oxford, to recognize the pitch ...

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 have ...