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Congenital Amusia Interferes with the Ability to Synchronize with Music
Author(s) -
BELLA SIMONE DALLA,
PERETZ ISABELLE
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1196/annals.1284.021
Subject(s) - audiology , contrast (vision) , psychology , rhythm , synchronization (alternating current) , noise (video) , communication , tone (literature) , neuroscience , medicine , computer science , art , telecommunications , channel (broadcasting) , literature , artificial intelligence , image (mathematics)
A bstract : Eight adults with a music‐specific learning disability (i.e., tone deafness, but we prefer the term “congenital amusia”) were asked to tap along with music (e.g., Ravel's Bolero ) and with nonmusical isochronous sequences (i.e., noise bursts). The amusic persons' tapping performance was poorly synchronized with music compared to that of nine matched control participants. By contrast, synchronization with the noise bursts was normal, suggesting that amusic persons' timing difficulty is limited to music.