{"id":28416,"date":"2019-03-28T16:29:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T20:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/?p=28416"},"modified":"2019-03-06T23:40:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T04:40:02","slug":"study-looks-at-brain-differences-that-lead-to-perfect-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2019\/03\/study-looks-at-brain-differences-that-lead-to-perfect-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Study looks at brain differences that lead to perfect pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Society for Neuroscience press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"first\" class=\"lead\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15157\" src=\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/BrainMusic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/BrainMusic.jpg 275w, https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/BrainMusic-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/>New research published in\u00a0<em>JNeurosci<\/em>\u00a0reports <strong>features of the brain in musicians with absolute, or perfect, pitch (AP)<\/strong> that likely enable individuals with this rare ability &#8212; shared by Mozart, Bach, and Beethoven &#8212; to precisely identify musical notes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"text\">\n<p>Keith Schneider and colleagues compared auditory cortex structure and activity of three groups of 20 participants, including AP musicians, non-AP musicians of similar musical expertise, and a control group of individuals with minimal musical training. <strong>The AP musicians had a significantly larger auditory cortex capable of representing distinct tones without a reference note<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>AP is rare, even among expert musicians, and the relative contribution of genetics and experience to this ability is debated. These findings suggest <strong>AP may be more strongly under genetic control than previously thought<\/strong>, given that nearly one quarter of the AP musicians did not begin musical training until adolescence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Society for Neuroscience press release: New research published in\u00a0JNeurosci\u00a0reports features of the brain in musicians with absolute, or perfect, pitch (AP) that likely enable individuals with this rare&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2019\/03\/study-looks-at-brain-differences-that-lead-to-perfect-pitch\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[42,18,67,93],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28437,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28416\/revisions\/28437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}