absolute pitch

But one day, she bumps into a strange boy, Gyung-min, and realizes that he's a musical genius with an absolute pitch.

But the infants showed exactly the opposite pattern, excelling at absolute pitch but unable to recognize changes in relative pitch.

Not surprisingly, the adults in her test all performed well on measures of relative pitch and poorly on absolute pitch.

With absolute pitch, it may be a case of use it or lose it.

What price absolute pitch in the light of such perplexing relativity?

I have said that the sense of absolute pitch is extremely limited in the number of tones which any person can possibly detect.

Note that: tuning of the pitch just short of absolute pitch range adjustments, not as a redeployment to use.

But the relationship between absolute pitch and language cannot be the whole story.

The possession of absolute pitch may prove of great advantage in everyday life.

Those who have absolute pitch (AP) are very much bothered by pianos that are out of tune.

But people eventually lose absolute pitch, Saffran argues, because it is simply too detailed to be functional in everyday life.

Perhaps a genetic predisposition for absolute pitch is more common among Asian populations.

Undoubtedly, there are many other handy applications of absolute pitch.

Why would absolute pitch come as standard operating equipment, only to fade from our grasp when we grow up?

For technique, memory, and absolute pitch, this may not matter much because we understand how to learn them.

One the other hand, absolute pitch also has important implications for learning language, Saffran says.