Tone Deafness: A New Disconnection Syndrome?
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Tone deafness: a new disconnection syndrome?
Communicating with one's environment requires efficient neural interaction between action and perception. Neural substrates of sound perception and production are connected by the arcuate fasciculus (AF). Although AF is known to be involved in language, its roles in non-linguistic functions are unexplored. Here, we show that tone-deaf people, with impaired sound perception and production, have ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neuroscience
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0270-6474,1529-2401
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1701-09.2009