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Jingle bells not merry for tone-deaf individuals

12-19-2007 · EurekAlert!

A new neuroimaging study conducted by researchers from the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University and the Université de Montréal, has found that tone-deaf or amusic individuals have more grey matter in specific regions of the brain related to processing musical pitch (the right interior frontal gyrus and the right auditory cortex), as compared to those who are musically intact. The study was published in a recent issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.

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