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From: fjm/cja
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1996 16:54:26 -0700 (MST)
Subject: sensory amusia

The medical name for the condition often called tone deafness by the
general public. A search using the word amusia yields interesting
results among them the idea that amusia is often associated with right
hemisphere brain damage. The centres of brain activity relating to music
are now discernable using pet scans and the brain processes 6 different
facets of musical information the primary one being pitch. Now if you
use tone deafness as a search word you'll get scads of people complaining
that they were labled as such by music teachers and it forever affected
there ability to sing. BTW there is also a condition called vocal motor
amusia and it relates to an inability to sing on pitch. Tone deafness as
a medical condition is a currently accepted concept in the brain research
community and seems proveable using accetepted scientific methods and
research. Read it yourself I ain't making it up nor do I think it's all
that common. My heartfelt sympathies to anyone on this list labled tone
deaf as a child, it's a terrible stigma and one that was applied to me as
well. fjm