Talk:Amusia

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[edit] Relationship to Tone deafness?

How does this relate to Tone deafness? DavidRF 04:01, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Domain specific neural processing

The paragraph (quoted below) is incorrect. To date, no neural areas of the brain have been found to process music specifically. Thus, the paragraph should be reworded. In fact, the whole article needs to be completely rewritten.

"Recent research has suggested that the human brain has neural networks specifically for the processing of music, and suggests that amusia is caused primarily by a deficiency in fine-grained perception of pitch"