Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars, discusses amusia, the inability or inhibited ability of the brain to process music. The story related in the video comes from Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Dr. Sacks's latest book.

http://www.amazon.com/Musicophilia-Tales-Music-Revised-Expanded/dp/14000...

http://www.bol.com/nl/p/boeken-engels/musicophilia/1001004006146569/inde...