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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Janata, P. The highs and lows of being tone deaf. Nat Neurosci 10, 810–812 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0707-810
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