![]() ![]() The necessary cognitive components required to execute a typical absolute pitch task (which can be easily operationalized for musicians) are such that AP becomes a model with which one can explore perceptual and mnemonic faculties and further the larger endeavor of mapping functional specialization in the brain. Add to that the fact that not all who are exposed to equivalent musical tuition develop clear forms of AP and you have the motivation for a number of questions about the interaction between genetics and environment. This possibility has broader appeal still if one considers that absolute pitch is perhaps not perfectly cognitively self-encapsulated and uniquely musical (as it has usually been described). What if it were a musical-domain manifestation of more general features of cognition? The most typical report from possessors of AP is that they acquired the ability effortlessly and incidentally, even assuming that everyone else was hearing what they heard until they were told otherwise. ![]() This is consistent with the suggestion that one of the crucial factors in determining whether or not one develops AP may be a global cognitive predilection that affects the way in which some people distil and process the information impinging upon their senses. Indeed, recent evidence has shown AP proficiency to be correlated with field-independent and sequential processing ( and references therein). Ultimately, it is likely that these cognitive inclinations interact with developmental, tuitional and genetic contributions in a propitious confluence of factors, each with its weighted contribution to the emergence of a variety of AP proficiencies. It follows from this perspective on AP that the genetic/biological contributions (presumably existing to varying degrees throughout the larger population) give rise to a number of interacting features, including the ability to retain isolated information, a cognitive predilection towards field-independent/narrow attention processing, and perhaps an auditory system capable of rendering unusually salient and rich descriptions of the stimuli.
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