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AMUSIA [2 records]

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Record 1 2012-08-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hearing
DEF

The inability to distinguish between different musical notes, making it impossible to play a musical instrument correctly or to sing in tune.

Key term(s)
  • music deafness

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ouïe
DEF

Inaptitude à distinguer un ton musical d'un autre, entraînant l'impossibilité de jouer correctement d'un instrument de musique ou de chanter juste.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Oído
DEF

Trastorno neurológico que se caracteriza por la incapacidad de reconocer o reproducir melodías y ritmos musicales y que no se debe a un déficit sensorial ni motor.

OBS

La amusia es un tipo de agnosia. La amusia motora es la incapacidad de cantar o tocar instrumentos de música. La alexia musical es la incapacidad de leer partituras y notaciones musicales.

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Record 2 2012-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nervous System
DEF

Amusia(lack of musical ability) due to loss of motor music function; the patient can understand tunes, and, further, can imagine tunes in his head, but he can not sing them.

OBS

This shows a close connection in locality between motor speech and motor music function, while a slight separateness of the two centres in locality in the left hemisphere explains cases of motor aphasia in which execution is preserved.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Système nerveux
DEF

Amusie (atteinte du centre moteur de la musique) caractérisée par l'incapacité de chanter.

Spanish

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