Absolute Pitch in a Four-Year-Old Boy With Autism

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• 作者：James N. Brenton ; Seth P. Devries ; Christine Barton ; Heike Minnich ; Deborah K. Sokol
• 刊名：Pediatric Neurology
• 出版年：2008
• 出版时间：August 2008
• 年：2008
• 卷：39
• 期：2
• 页码：137-138
• 全文大小：48 K

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Absolute pitch is the ability to identify the pitch of an isolated tone. We report on a 4-year-old boy with autism and absolute pitch, one of the youngest reported in the literature. Absolute pitch is thought to be attributable to a single gene, transmitted in an autosomal-dominant fashion. The association of absolute pitch with autism raises the speculation that this talent could be linked to a genetically distinct subset of children with autism. Further, the identification of absolute pitch in even young children with autism may lead to a lifelong skill.