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Why Adults Can't Develop Perfect Pitch
Rick Beato
Rick Beato argues that adults cannot develop true perfect pitch, which he ties to critical-period brain plasticity and language acquisition. He says it can only be developed in young children, and discusses the research behind this.
HN points to it as the standard explanation of why perfect pitch is a childhood window, in threads about absolute pitch training.
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