Both light and sound travel as waves, with characteristics that allow people with typical vision and hearing to perceive and categorize them when they reach their eyes and ears: “That’s a small red ...

University of Surrey provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Absolute pitch has long been viewed as a kind of musical superpower. It refers to the ability to identify or produce ...

When two notes are an octave apart, one has double the frequency of the other yet we perceive them as being the same note – a “C” for example. Why is this? Readers give their take This question has a ...