Perfect pitch common among the blind
By John Travis
From New Orleans, at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
Stevie Wonder. Ray Charles. Jose Feliciano. Because of such legends, there’s a perception that blind people make great musicians. Scientists do have some evidence from blind people that brain areas normally devoted to vision become involved in hearing or in controlling the dexterity needed to play an instrument. A new study now finds that blind musicians are more likely to have perfect pitch than sighted people are.