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Nature Neuroscience 10, 810 - 812 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nn0707-810
The highs and lows of being tone deaf
Petr Janata1
- Petr Janata is in the Center for Mind and Brain, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, 267 Cousteau Place, Davis, California 95618, USA. e-mail: pjanata@ucdavis.edu
Abstract
Representations of pitch and space seem to interact. A new study now reports that people with amusia, a pitch processing deficit, do not show the interference between these concepts that is found in control subjects.
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