# Amusia A lifelong musical disorder affecting pitch and rhythm processing, distinct from the much larger population of adults who have concluded that music is not for them; measured across 20,000 participants without self-referral, its prevalence is 1.5% (Peretz & Vuvan, 2017; Sloboda et al., 2005). ## References - Cuddy, L. L., Balkwill, L.-L., Peretz, I., & Holden, R. R. (2005). Musical difficulties are rare: A study of "tone deafness" among university students. *Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1060*, 311–324. https://doi.org/10.1196/annals.1360.026 - Peretz, I., & Vuvan, D. T. (2017). Prevalence of congenital amusia. *European Journal of Human Genetics, 25*(5), 625–630. https://doi.org/10.1038/ejhg.2017.15 - Sloboda, J. A., Wise, K. J., & Peretz, I. (2005). Quantifying tone deafness in the general population. *Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1060*, 255–261. https://doi.org/10.1196/annals.1360.018