Some media descriptions of research by Deutsch and colleagues:
- What's on DNTO: Oct. 17 - CBC Radio, October, 2009
Freaky news about your brain may change your mind - Elizabeth Landau, CNN Health, August, 2009
Der Fluch des Kammertons - Iris Gutiérrez, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagzeitung, July, 2009
Words into a song: the illusion of the brain? (in Chinese) - Chinese Academy of Audiology, May, 2009
The Ears Have It - Charlotte Gardner, BBC Magazine, July, 2009, 37-39
Az abszolút hallásról - Hir6, January, 2009
Toontaal sleutel tot absoluut gehoor - Erica Renckens, Kennislink, May, 2009
Perfect Pitch Related to Language - Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, May, 2009
Tone language is key to perfect pitch - e! Science News, May, 2009
Absolutes Gehör: Kein genetischer Glücksfall, sondern sprachabhängig - Der Standard, May, 2009
Forscher lüften Geheimnis des absoluten Gehörs - Sybille Möckl, Welt Online, May, 2009
Das absolute Gehör - Werner Siefer, Focus Online, May, 2009
Perfect Pitch: Language Wins Out Over Genetics - PhysOrg, May, 2009
Tone Language Is Key To Perfect Pitch - Inga Kiderra, Science Daily, May, 2009
Tonal languages are the key to perfect pitch - Hazel Muir, New Scientist, April, 2009
Toned Up, Tuned In - Rachel Saslow, The Washington Post, May, 2009
Learning Chinese languages makes you musical, claim scientists - Richard Alleyne, Telegraph, April, 2009
Perfect Pitch: Language Wins Out Over Genetics - Diana Deutsch, Kevin Dooley, Trevor Henthorn and Brian Head, Media Release, Acoustical Society of America, May, 2009
Talk into tune - Carl Wilson, Globe and Mail, February, 2009
Brain researchers track auditory illusions - Interview with Jochen Paulus, Southwest German Public Radio, December, 2008
Brain researchers track auditory illusions - Jochen Paulus, Southwest German Public Radio, December, 2008
Music special: Five great auditory illusions - Michael Marshall, NewScientist, February, 2008
The Speech-to-Song Illusion - Diana Deutsch, Rachael Lapidis, and Trevor Henthorn, Media Release, Acoustical Society of America, November, 2008
Brain sees fine line between speech and song - New Scientist, November, 2008
Our Brains Need Inhibitors to Perceive Speech - Softpedia, November, 2008
Wiederholungen machen Sprachmelodie horbar’ - Scienceticker.info, November, 2008
Wie uns das Ohr ubers Ohr haut - Interview with Frank von Groteluschen, German Public Radio, October, 2008
'A perfect pitch match.' - Excerpted from, Oliver Sacks' book: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. Columbia Magazine, 2007
¿Cómo percibimos la música? Los Lectores Preguntan a Eduardo Punset - Eduardo Punset, 2007
Through to the next round - Marcus Low, Health24, 2007
Musical Language (Radio Lab), Podcast - WNYC's Radio Lab, 2007
'¿Se encuentra el oído absoluto en los genes?' - Ed Edelson trans Dr. Tango, Yahoo Salud, August, 2007
'Is Perfect Pitch All in the Genes?' - Ed Edelson, HealthDay News, August, 2007
'Psychologists Create Surprising Musical Illusion' - Adriana Salerno, Voice of America, August, 2007
'Musical Illusions' - Julie J. Rehmeyer, Science News, June, 2007
Speaking in Tones. Ni hao or bonjour: do genes drive preference for language type? - Choi, Charles Q., Scientific American, September, 2007
'Musical Language' - Interview with Jad Abumrad, New York Public Radio, April, 2006
'Do My Ears Deceive Me' - Interview with Chris Maslanka, BBC Radio 3, April, 2006
‘Your Brain on Music’ - David Ranada, Sound & Vision Magazine, May, 2006
'Music on the Mind' - Scott Fields, APS Observer, April, 2006
'Prelude to Perfect Pitch' - Kate McCartin, Trenton Times, May, 2006
'Perfect pitch' - Fran Kelly, ABC Radio National, January, 2005
' Perfect Pitch' - Dean Edell, ABC7 KGO-TV/DT, February, 2005
'L'oreille absolue des asiatiques' - Bruno Rougier, Radio France, January, 2005
'Perfect pitch' - Sadie F. Dingfelder, APA Monitor on Psychology, February, 2005
'Perfect pitch' - National Geographic, March, 2005
'Oreille absolue : avantage aux Chinois' - Pour La Science, January, 2005
Musical Mandarins - 21st Century Online, December, 2004
Ernest Ruiz and Fernando Cabedo Bosquet - Mundo hi-fi, December, 2004
'Science in Action' - Interview with Molly Bentley, BBC World Service, December, 2004
'The World Today' - Interview with BBC World Service, November, 2004
'Warum Mandarin das absolute Gehör begünstigt' - Eva Hörschgen, Wissenschaft.de, November, 2004
'Chinesen sind die besseren Musiker' - Katharina Kramer, Die Welt, December, 2004
'Absolutes Gehor: Sprache schult das Ohr' - Spiegel Online, November, 2004
'L'oreille absolue : plus facile pour les Chinois' - Isabelle Masingue, Quebec Science, November, 2004
'Absolutt gehør ved hjelp av språk?' - Harald Aastorp, Forskning.no, November, 2004
'Wieso haben so vielo Chinesen das absolute Gehör?' - Katherina Kramer, NZZ am Sontag, November, 2004
'Mandarin Chinese speaks volumes in giving the young an ear for music' - Ian Sample and Faisal al Yafai, The Guardian, November, 2004
'Tonsprachen und absolutes Gehor gehoren zusammen.' - Yahoo! Nachrichten, November, 2004
'Study: Language Determines Music Skills' - Jennifer Viegas, Discovery Channel, November, 2004
'Psychologists Pobe Perfect Pitch' - Nadja Geipert, ScienceNow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, November, 2004
'Speaking Tonal Languages Promotes Perfect Pitch' - Don Monroe, Scientific American, November, 2004
'Tone language translates to perfect pitch' - Inga Kiderra, Science Daily, November, 2004
'Perfect Pitch in Tone Language Speakers Carries Over to Music' - Diana Deutsch, Trevor Henthorn, Elizabeth Marvin, and HongShuai Xu, Media Release, Acoustical Society of America, November, 2004
'Can't get it out of my head' - Carl Zimmer, The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, February, 2004
'Das absolute Gehör ist gewöhnlicher als gedacht' - Ulrich Dewald, Wissenschaft.de, April, 2003
'Potential for Acquiring Absolute Pitch Based on Time and Genetics' - Brian Weaver, American Psychological Society, December, 2002
The Science Behind the Song Stuck in Your Head - Roy Rivenburg, Los Angeles Times, October, 2001
'A paradox of musical pitch' - Deborah Smith, Monitor on Psychology, American Psychological Association, 2001
'The Biology of Perfect Pitch: Name That Tone' - Michael Abrams, Discover, December, 2001
'Auditory Illusion Shaped by First Language' - Charles Seife, ScienceNow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, December, 2000
Anyone can have perfect pitch, all they have to do is learn Vietnamese at a very early age - Cherry Norton, The Independent, November, 1999
'Study links perfect pitch to tonal language’ - James Glanz, New York Times (front page), November, 1999
‘Striking the right Note’ - Kathryn Brown, The New Scientist, December, 1999
'UCSD prof makes a hard pitch for perfect pitch' - David Graham, San Diego Union Tribune, December, 1999
'Speaking in Tones' - Alan Hall, Scientific American, November, 1999
'Tone Language Speakers Possess Absolute Pitch' - Diana Deutsch, Trevor Henthorn, and Mark Dolson, Media Release, Acoustical Society of America, 1999
'Do you hear what I hear?' - Steven Hunt, Discovery Channel, Canada, March, 1997
'You must be hearing things' - Bob McDonald, Quirks and Quarks, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1997
'Musical Illusions and Paradoxes' - Robyn Williams, The Science Show, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1997
'Mothers and their children hear a musical illusion in strikingly similar ways' - media release, Acoustical Society of America, 1996
'Escher for the Ear' - Philip Yam, Scientific American, March, 1996
