Interestingly, there was a study conducted in by a Japanese psychologist who taught perfect pitch to a number of students with a 100% success rate. However, the catch was that they were all between the age of 4-7 (or thereabouts). He trained them daily 3 times a day by playing keys on the piano and having them guess the notes. The training went on for a number of years and by the end of it, they all developed perfect pitch.
They tried this with adults, and it was unsuccessful. Adults could get good at identifying notes but never fully developed perfect pitch. (this is all published in the book 'Peak' by K. Anders Ericsson. A psychologist who specializes in the research of peak performers.
He suggested that children's brains are a lot more malleable and easily able to learn and develop new concepts that adult brains cannot. Hence, with the proper tutorage, children can perform spectacular learning feats, such as learning a language much faster than an adult.
He also suggests that Mozart most likely had perfect pitch and that it was not a random stroke of luck, instead, he believes that as he came from an extremely musical family and that he learned many different musical instruments in those crucial developmental years he actually learned perfect pitch.
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