Absolute Pitch

Musicians with absolute (perfect) pitch have a ‘pruned’ planum temporale in their right cerebral hemisphere

16 Comments / Absolute Pitch, Lateralisation, Musician / By

Title of paper under discussion Absolute Pitch and Planum Temporale Authors Julian Paul Keenan, Ven Thangaraj, Andrea R. Halpern and Gottfried Schlaug Journal NeuroImage, 14(6):1402-8, January 2002 Link to original paper (open access) Overview The planum temporale (PT), a triangular area just behind the primary auditory cortex on each of the two temporal lobes , …

Musicians with absolute (perfect) pitch have a ‘pruned’ planum temporale in their right cerebral hemisphere Read More »

Musical pitches genuinely evoke colour sensations in some people

Leave a Comment / Absolute Pitch, Musician, Synaesthesia / By

Title of paper under discussion Automaticity of pitch class-color synesthesia as revealed by a Stroop-like effect Authors Kosuke Itoh, Honami Sakata, Hironaka Igarashi, Tsutomu Nakada Journal Consciousness and Cognition, Volume 71, May 2019, Pages 86-91 Link to original paper (open access) Overview Synaesthesia is a merging of senses that aren’t normally connected, whereby the stimulation …

Musical pitches genuinely evoke colour sensations in some people Read More »

Scroll to Top