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 ...

Absolute pitch (AP) – the rare ability to identify or reproduce a musical note without any reference – has long fascinated researchers and musicians alike. Traditionally regarded as a talent inherent ...

Variation in the ability of humans to recognize musical pitch appears to be primarily due to highly heritable differences in auditory neural functions. These functions are not measured by conventional ...

New research from UC Santa Cruz is finally giving you the go-ahead to sing in the shower as loud as you want. Because, as it turns out, you probably sound pretty darn good. Psychologists wanted to ...

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 ...

ALAMEDA — Alameda High School is bringing “Pitch Perfect: The Musical” to the Island from March 9-17. The musical is based on the 2012 hit musical movie, “Pitch Perfect,” directed by Jason Moore and ...

Source: JS Bach's Original Manuscripts for Solo Violin Partitas and Sonatas Number, space, and classical music are highly structured domains that are also characterized by certain regularities. Our ...

What sounds like music to us may just be noise to a macaque monkey. That's because a monkey's brain appears to lack critical circuits that are highly sensitive to a sound's pitch, a team reported ...

Results of a study involving primates suggest that speech and music may have shaped the human brain's hearing circuits. In the eternal search for understanding what makes us human, scientists found ...