Absolute Pitch May Not Be So Absolute
Then-UChicago graduate students Stephen Van Hedger and Shannon Heald discuss how Heald "tricked" Van Hedger—who has perfect pitch—by gradually detuning music over the course of a song. In a later experiment, the researchers showed that others with perfect pitch could be similarly tricked, demonstrating the malleability of a trait often thought of as fixed.
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