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 ...

June 11 (UPI) --The human brain is uniquely tuned to appreciate music, according to a new study. "We found that a certain region of our brains has a stronger preference for sounds with pitch than ...

Seamus Cater is a British-born musician whose parents were active folk revivalists in London in the '60s, meaning that folk and singing permeated his early music experiences. He learned to play ...

In some languages, the meaning of each word is not only conveyed by the order of its syllables, but also by the pitch. Tonal languages such as Cantonese, Mandarin or Yoruba are difficult to learn for ...

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.