amusian.
Pathol.
A condition in which there is the loss of a musical ability, such as the comprehension of music, the production of music, or the ability to read or write musical notation.
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1890 A. Knoblauch in Brain 13 330 To name the motor disorders which correspond to aphasia we would propose the term ‘amusia’.
1912 Med. Rec. (N.Y.) 13 Jan. 59/2 Amusia, according to Brazier, may be simple or total or at any rate complex.
1961 R. Brain Speech Disorders vii. 105 Failure to recognize familiar music is known as sensory amusia; and inability to sing, whistle or hum a tune is motor amusia.
1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 June 709/3 Arthur Benson then gives a refreshingly systematic account of the multifarious disorders—the ‘amusias’—to which musical ability is prone.
1990 Cortex 26 470 Loss of the ability to analyze complex tones for pitch extraction may produce some degree of receptive amusia.
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