{"id":206318,"date":"2025-02-13T03:17:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T09:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/new-research-shatters-the-perfect-pitch-myth"},"modified":"2025-02-13T03:17:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T09:17:37","slug":"new-research-shatters-the-perfect-pitch-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/new-research-shatters-the-perfect-pitch-myth","title":{"rendered":"New Research Shatters the Perfect Pitch Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-shatters-the-perfect-pitch-myth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For decades, people believed absolute pitch was an exclusive ability granted only to those with the right genetics or early music training. But new research from the University of Surrey proves otherwise. It\u2019s been a long-held belief that absolute pitch \u2014 the ability to identify musical notes without a reference \u2014 is a rare talent limited to those with specific genetic traits or early musical training. However, new research from the University of Surrey challenges this idea, showing that adults can develop absolute pitch through dedicated training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, people believed absolute pitch was an exclusive ability granted only to those with the right genetics or early music training. But new research from the University of Surrey proves otherwise. It\u2019s been a long-held belief that absolute pitch \u2014 the ability to identify musical notes without a reference \u2014 is a rare talent [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}