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SUMMARY:Absolute Pitch: Genetics &amp\; Perception - Jane Gitschier\, Howa
 rd Hughes Medical Institute and University of California\, San Francisco
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CONTACT:Cordula Becker
DESCRIPTION:Absolute pitch is the uncanny ability to identify the pitch of
  a tone without a reference tone. This talk describes our effort to unlock
  the genetic basis for this rare and complex trait. A web-based pitch-test
 ing and recruitment strategy has allowed us to identify over 1000 subjects
  with absolute pitch and to enroll a subset of these for relative pair ana
 lysis. The wealth of perceptual data from these subjects has also enabled 
 us to uncover two surprising distortions in pitch perception.
LOCATION:Seminar Room (ground floor)\, Craik-Marshall Building
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