Could it be that cellist Yo-Yo Ma owes his perfect musical pitch to his Chinese parents? While we may never know the definitive answer, new research from the University of California, San Diego has ...
In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, using intracranial recordings, researchers investigated the neural basis of lexical tone production in native Mandarin speakers. They ...
The figure shows, for each group and subgroup of subjects, the average percentage correct on the test for perfect pitch. Within each group, early musical training mattered. However, holding ethnicity ...