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Re:Gene Therapy Allows an 11-Year-Old Boy to Hear by Jorge1o1 on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @08:52AM (#39117332)
Funny that you mention perfect-pitch because in a similar vein it seems like one of those things that can be taught but the window closes very early in childhood.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/030573561246394...

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Re:Gene Therapy Allows an 11-Year-Old Boy to Hear by tough on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:24PM (#39119932)
I was gonna bring this relation of also being a skill needing to be developed in early age, but you beat me to it.

good thing there's already a drug for that https://www.npr.org/2014/01/04/259552442/want-perfect-pitch-...

science is never fixed is it

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