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The highs and lows of being tone deaf

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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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Figure 1: The link between musical and spatial processing was investigated via a set of tasks.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Petr Janata is in the Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, 267 Cousteau Place, Davis, California 95618, USA. pjanata@ucdavis.edu,

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