title: Congenital amusia interferes with the ability to synchronize with music.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. dalla-bella.2@osu.edu
authors.forename: Simone Dalla
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Bella
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Peretz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009146:Music; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D013998:Time Perception / Q000502:physiology*