Congenital Amusia
What is Congenital Amusia?
It is a tone deafness that affects 4% of the population.
What does TBSS stand for?
Tract-based spatial statistics
Is Congenital Amusia a disconnection syndrome?
YES
What is White Matter?
Myelinated axons that connect in both hemispheres for the exchange of information.
How many participants were there?
32 participants
How is congenital amusia measured?
A Scale test
What is TBSS used for?
It investigates the white matter skeleton of the brain.
Was the efficiency of the brain network reduced or induced in congenital amusia participants?
It was reduced
What are the three types of fibers of the White matter tract?
Associate, Projection, Commissural
What were the two methods that they used in the study?
TBSS Analysis and Network-based Analysis
Which lobe would you need to evaluate in order to find congenital amusia?
The temporal lobe
What were they trying to look for in the TBSS method?
Abnormal clusters in the white matter tract.
If there is an impairment of WM tracts, then the brain network efficiency is ...
Reduced
Where would the abnormalities of white matter be located in the brain?
Damage to the temporal lobe
What does the network-based analysis method measure?
The brain network routes