SECRETS OF THE SENSES: Using neuroscience to challenge how we see and hear.

40 psychologicalscience.org/observer/march-april21 EMERGING METHODS IN NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH: SECRETS OF THE SENSES Laminar neural recording allows researchers to monitor electrical activity at different frequencies in the brain by implanting thin metal probes through the cortex. "[Amusic brains] can actually track the pitch changes as well as typical listeners who are not paying attention to the pitch stimuli, but these brains become dysfunctional when they have to pay attention to and actively detect the pitch changes", Zhang said of the distinction. 38 psychologicalscience.org/observer/march-april21 SECRETS OF THE SENSES Using neuroscience to challenge how we see and hear By Kim Armstrong, APS staff writer C ongenital amusia, a neurodevelopmental disorder that limits an individual's ability to process subtle distinctions in pitch, is often referred to simply as tone deafness. [Extracted from the article]