Perfect pitch study

Z! Reinhardt diskladame@provide.net
Wed, 22 Apr 1998 23:42:07 -0400


If memory serves me correctly, there was something printed in the New York
Times about this study dated approximately February, 1995.  I clipped out
the article but it will take me awhile to find it again in The Great Paper
Chase that rules my home.

ZR!  RPT
Ann Arbor  MI
diskladame@provide.net

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> From: BSimon1234 <BSimon1234@aol.com>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Perfect pitch study
> Date: Wednesday, April 22, 1998 6:16 PM
> 
> I hesitate to mention the following because I cannot remember where I saw
or
> heard of it. It might have been in a medical magazine, possibly the
newspaper,
> but I cannot find the reference.
> 
> The article said that people who  have perfect pitch process sounds in a
> different part of their brains than normal people.  The study was done
with a
> nuclear magnetic resonance scanner, scanning the brains for chemical
activity
> changes while tones were played to the patients. 
> 
> That is all I heard, I have nothing to add, no references to the study. I
> thought I would relay the information in case someone else can actually
put
> their hands on the article, or scan search the Internet for such things.
> 
> Bill Simon
> Phoenix


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