Can You Follow This Beat?
Does the beat always beat you? Why some people can't hear music. SUBSCRIBE to BrainCraft! Click here: http://ow.ly/rt5IE Talking psychology, neuroscience & why we act the way we do. Keep...
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Mrs. L was a young-looking sixty-seven year old woman. She was intelligent, but she didn’t know what “singing” meant. And she didn’t hear music like most of us do. In Oliver Saks’ book Musicophilia, Mrs. L described music to sound like pots and pans being thrown around the kitchen. She said that if she went to an opera, it all sounded like screaming. This condition isn’t unique to Mrs. L. About 4% of the population is born with “amusia”. Amusia is a deficit in the brain’s ability to process music. Sometimes it’s called tone deafness, where people can’t differentiate between pitches or distinguish musical notes. In others, amusia can present as beat deafness, the inability to move in time to a musical rhythm. In the worst cases of amusia, pe...
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Mrs. L was a young-looking sixty-seven year old woman. She was intelligent, but she didn’t know what “singing” meant. And she didn’t hear music like most of us do. In Oliver Saks’ book Musicophilia, Mrs. L described music to sound like pots and pans being thrown around the kitchen. She said that if she went to an opera, it all sounded like screaming. This condition isn’t unique to Mrs. L. About 4% of the population is born with “amusia”. Amusia is a deficit in the brain’s ability to process music. Sometimes it’s called tone deafness, where people can’t differentiate between pitches or distinguish musical notes. In others, amusia can present as beat deafness, the inability to move in time to a musical rhythm. In the worst cases of amusia, pe...
