"For these patients, listening to music is like listening to a foreign language, " says Isabelle Peretz of Montreal University in Canada, who identified congenital amusia four years ago.
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She has studied three patients who suffered damage to both the left and right temporal lobes _ where major auditory circuits reside _ and as a result have lost the ability to recognize familiar songs, the condition called amusia.
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This study suggests that amusia's effect on being able to learn tonal languages is actually quite small ( but there " is " an effect ) .-- talk ) 12 : 59, 20 May 2012 ( UTC)
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Diseases such as dyslexia and epilepsy are due to a malformation in cortical development and also lead to an increase in cortical thickness, which leads researchers to believe that congenital amusia may be caused by the identical phenomenon in a different area of the brain.
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Additionally, brain damage to the receptive dimension affects the faculty to discriminate tunes ( receptive or sensorial amusia ), the ability to read music ( musical alessia ), and the ability to identify songs that were familiar prior to the brain damage ( amnesic amusia ).
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Additionally, brain damage to the receptive dimension affects the faculty to discriminate tunes ( receptive or sensorial amusia ), the ability to read music ( musical alessia ), and the ability to identify songs that were familiar prior to the brain damage ( amnesic amusia ).
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The standard is considered to be that amusics with a " normal " intensity of amusia are cortically unable to distinguish pitch changes of less than three semitones ( when it includes a pitch-deficit; it is contentious whether without this symptom it can be considered amusia ).
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The standard is considered to be that amusics with a " normal " intensity of amusia are cortically unable to distinguish pitch changes of less than three semitones ( when it includes a pitch-deficit; it is contentious whether without this symptom it can be considered amusia ).
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Brain injuries may afflict motor or expressive functioning, including the ability to sing, whistle, or hum a tune ( oral-expressive amusia ), the ability to play an instrument ( instrumental amusia or musical apraxia ), and the ability to write music ( musical agraphia ).
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Brain injuries may afflict motor or expressive functioning, including the ability to sing, whistle, or hum a tune ( oral-expressive amusia ), the ability to play an instrument ( instrumental amusia or musical apraxia ), and the ability to write music ( musical agraphia ).
