[empeyot]

"In the case of perfect pitch, it seems that the necessary adaptability in the brain disappears by the time a child passes about six years old [...]. (Although [...] there are exceptions of sort [...])" in Prof. Anders Ericsson's book "Peak" in which he presents results from his research area of expert performance. He also quotes a published study in which childs aged 2 to 6 consistently were taught perfect pitch: "A longitudinal study of the process of acquiring absolute pitch: A practical report of training with the 'chord identification method'"

[MandieD]

I wonder how much overlap there is with the ability to easily gain native-level proficiency in a language. We’re raising our child bilingual, partially because no one should learn German from me (started in college, speak well enough to get through life, but everyone knows I’m a native English speaker), but I’d be ok with our child learning English from my husband, as he speaks well enough that Americans think he’s British. His mother, who also learned in high school and university, taught him for a maternity leave year at age 4, then left it to the school system, which didn’t expose him to English again until he was 10. His younger sister does not speak English nearly as well as he does. I’m quite sure that early exposure is why he doesn’t have a German-sounding accent when speaking English.

[hirvi74]

You can apparently get Perfect Pitch from the medication Valporate, according to some study years back. Though, I do not recall how effective it was. It was significant enough to be detected though.

[ThomPete]

I would challenge that claim. Also a quick google search on meditation and perfect shows mostly claims and speculation nothing conclusive.

[hirvi74]

I found this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3848041/

For whatever it's worth, I heard about this like a decade ago, and nothing more has come from it, so perhaps you are correct in that the connection is speculative (the study only had 24 participants and more research needs to be conducted with large samples), but it's an interesting study none the less.