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  1. Loss, through disease, of the ability to express musical sounds either vocally or in strumentally, to write musical notation (the power of ordinary writing being retained), or to appreciate musical sounds mentally. See tone-deafness.

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  • Using SSIRH one is able to explain why there are occurrences of isolated amusia or aphasia —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Taken together, these findings provide evidence for highly flexible speech perception processes that can adapt to speech that deviates substantially from the pronunciation norms in the native talker community along multiple acoustic-phonetic dimensions. abilities abnormal absolute_pitch academia accent accent_learning access accidents acoustic_processing acoustics acoustic_variation acquisition action action_recognition activation adaptation adjectives adults adv_hr_sci affordances ai allocation allocentric ambiguity ambiguity_resolution amnesia amodal_completion amusia animacy animal animals anticipation apes aphasia argument_structure art articulation articulation_index articulatory_phonology artifical_intelligence artificial_grammar aspiration assimilation associative_learning asynchronous attention attentional_capture attentional_frames attentional_selection attractor_network attributes audience_design audition auditory_categories auditory_grouping auditory_memory 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thematic_role_assignment thematic_roles theory theory_of_mind thought threshold time timecourse timing toddlers tonal_centers tonality tonal_structure tones touch trace training translation treatment triad tritone_paradox tunnel_effect turing twins typicality uh ultimatum_game um underspecification variability variance variation vector_analysis vegetarian vehicles verbs veridicality vibration viewpoint vision visionclass visual_attention visual_categories visual_categorization visual_cues visual_index visual_memory visual_perception visual_scenes visual_search visuomotor_system visuo-spatial_sketchpad vitamin_a vmseminar vocabulary vocalization voice_assimilation voicing vot vowels vstm vwm vygotsky wickelfeatures wlseminar women word_boundaries word_comprehension word_learning word_length word_recognition word_retrieval words word_similarity working_memory world writing CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes 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  • Based upon patterns of responding to these different stimuli, we conclude that European starlings are capable of individual vocal recognition, and that this process is mediated by mechanisms involving the memorization of individually specific song types, the sequential ordering of song types within different bouts of an individual, and perhaps by individually specific spectral (or voice) characteristics that generalize across song types. amusia attention auditory basalganglia bayesian birdsong coding cogs203 coherence control cross-modal decision-making development electrophysiology embodiment epigenetics erp evolution expectation fmri imagery information_theory learning localization machine_learning mmn motor music musicperception neuroanatomy oscillations perception plasticity population probability psychophysics recommendation representation review rhythm seminar speech spiketiming statistical_learning statistics timbre time visual CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Sound representation methods for spectro-temporal receptive field estimation acoustic acoustics adult amusia animal animal_communication animals aptitude association attention auditory basalganglia bayesian behavior biological bird birdsong brain chains child coding cognition cogs203 coherence communication concept control cross-modal cues decision-making development discrimination electrophysiology embodiment entropy epigenetics erp evolution expectation female file-import-08-11-19 fmri formation frontal generalization genetic genetics genomics gorilla humans humpback imagery imaging imitative infant information_theory intelligence language learning linguistics lobe localization macaca machine_learning magnetic male mapping markov mathematics memory mental mmn models motor mulatta music musicperception nervous neuroanatomy neurological oscillations pan perception phonation phonetics physiology plasticity pongo population primates probability processes psycholinguistics psychology psychophysics pygmaeus recall recommendation representation resonance retinavision review rhythm saguinus selection semantics seminar similarity sound space species specificity spectrography speech spiketiming starling starlings statistical_learning statistics stimulation stochastic symbolism syntax system timbre time troglodytes verbal visual vocalization whale wild CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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  1. New Latin, from Greek ἄμουσος, not musical, from - privative + μοῦσα, muse: see muse, music.
 

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