Diana Deutsch

Diana Deutsch (born 1938) is a British-American psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of California, San Diego, who researches the psychology of music. Born Diana Sokol in London, she was educated at Christ's Hospital and St Anne's College, Oxford, where she took a first in psychology, philosophy and physiology in 1959, then moved to the United States and received her doctorate from the University of California, San Diego in 1970. She is known for work on absolute pitch, which she has shown is more prevalent among speakers of tonal languages, and for discovering auditory illusions such as the tritone paradox and the speech to song illusion. She wrote Musical Illusions and Phantom Words and edited the standard handbook The Psychology of Music.