Do musicians with perfect pitch have more autism traits than musicians without perfect pitch? An empirical study.

In the earliest study of AP in autism, Heaton, Hermelin & Pring [17] observed a highly significant correlation between pitch memory scores and scores from a cognitive task (block design) that was taken as a marker for a local bias or an analytical cognitive style characteristic of autism.

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Whilst the group difference in attention switching failed to reach statistical significance in our study, scores from this subscale contributed substantially to the observed difference in total AQ scores and it would be interesting to explore cognitive flexibility and its relationship with imagination in a larger group of individuals with AP.

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