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Neuropsychology

Brains out of tune

Nature volume 415, pages 589–590 (2002)Cite this article

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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Figure 1: “I only know two tunes.

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