Andrew Huberman· PhD
Perfect Pitch as a trait that is to say uh you have the ability uh to to hear a note played and say oh that's a c right this is a pretty rare trait so even if you look among highly trained musicians if you went to Peabody conservatory at my University Johns Hopkins and tested people there you would find a higher incidence of Perfect Pitch than you would in the general population but still maybe one in 10 trained musicians have perfect pitch and parenthetically having Perfect Pitch doesn't NE necessarily make you a better musician uh but it's an interesting phenomena and so the question is well is perfect pitch heritable and the answer is when you look at twin studies where which is what we use to estimate heritability the answer is it's kind of low there's a heritable component but it accounts for uh my recollection is on the on the order of 30 40% of the variability in Perfect Pitch