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Brains out of tune.
whose musical sense was not keen. He said: " It is odd, I can never tell 'God save the weasel' from 'Pop goes the Queen'! " T he old fellow of Sheen was in good company. Two presidents of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant (Fig. 1) and Theodore Roosevelt 1 , were tone deaf, as was Che Guevara 2. Music educators often ascribe 3 lack of musical aptitude to lack of practice. But in a paper publis...
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Like language, music engagement is universal, complex and present early in life. However, approximately 4% of the general population experiences a lifelong deficit in music perception that cannot be explained by hearing loss, brain damage, intellectual deficiencies or lack of exposure. This musical disorder, commonly known as tone-deafness and now termed congenital amusia, affects mostly the me...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/415589a