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Congenital Amusia: Impaired Musical Pitch But Intact Musical Time

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Plasticity and Signal Representation in the Auditory System

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    Krista L. Hyde & Isabelle Peretz

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  1. Institute of Experimental Medicine, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

    Josef Syka

  2. Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California

    Michael M. Merzenich

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Hyde, K.L., Peretz, I. (2005). Congenital Amusia: Impaired Musical Pitch But Intact Musical Time. In: Syka, J., Merzenich, M.M. (eds) Plasticity and Signal Representation in the Auditory System. Springer, Boston, MA . https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23181-1_27

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