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Nature 415, 589-590 (7 February 2002) | doi:10.1038/415589a
Neuropsychology: Brains out of tune
Thomas F. Münte
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Abstract
Is lack of musical ability simply the result of failure to practise? Probably not, if new investigations are anything to go by. They show that a disorder akin to dyslexia affects the processing of pitch.
There was an old fellow of Sheen
whose musical sense was not keen.
He said: "It is odd,
I can never tell 'God
save the weasel' from 'Pop goes the Queen'!"
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