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Amusia refers to a number of disorders which are indicated by the inability to recognize musical tones or rhythms or to reproduce them. Amusia can be congenital (present at birth) or be acquired sometime later in life (as from brain damage).

The term "amusia" is composed of a- + -musia which means the lack of music.

These disorders include:


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Neuroanatomy

See also

References

  • J. M. S. Pearce (2005). Selected Observations on Amusia. European Neurology 54: 145-148. [1]
  • Karl Kleist, Sensory Aphasia and amusia : The myeloarchitectonic basis, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1962.

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