Thought I'd post this link to a conference on the biology and genetics of music. As someone who is tone deaf I'm interested in the topic, though obviously as an outsider.
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Everyone's heard that losing a particular sensory modality causes the sensitivity of the other modalities to be heightened. Blind people are supposed to hear and smell really, really well, for example.
When I was younger I took a temp job for the University of California Center on Deafness. I was lucky enough to be taken in and taught by the close-knit deaf community at the Center, and my eyes were opened to the special challenges of deafness in a hearing world.
Before I started medical school I worked at a clinic that served the deaf and hard-of-hearing community.
Weird finding: