NewScientist: Tone-deaf people have fewer brain connections
posted by Aji Coronel on Aug 23, 2009, under Geeky Stuff
Let’s admit it… Some people just cannot sing. While most of them struggle with identifying the correct notes to a melody, a few people I’ve heard cannot even sing in time, which is even weirder. Now, maybe, while an individual can identify the right frequencies, he cannot deliver it with his voice. It could be so just because he didn’t have the experience or the facility to do it early on in life, and thus because the skill wasn’t learned, it now becomes impossible to do it.
Is music a purely human experience? What exactly makes us human beings experience music the way we do, intellectually, emotionally, spiritually? And now, since we are able to immerse ourselves into the music, we also usually like to participate, and the simplest way to do this is through singing. But what is it inside us that lets us do this properly, and what is missing in less fortunate people that eludes them from singing in tune?
A very interesting read… http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327223.300-tonedeaf-people-have-fewer-brain-connections.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
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September 2nd, 2009 on 5:50 pm
Holy molly! I just read this from Wired Science…
Monkeys Don’t Go For Music — Unless It’s Made for Them
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/monkeymusic/
And I thought I was the only one calming down whenever I hear Metallica’s “Of Wolf and Man”. Now I wonder if Enya’s music makes the monkeys uneasy too? LOL!