Department of Psychology, Whitehead Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London, UK. l.stewart@gold.ac.uk
A recent study of spatial processing in amusia makes a controversial claim that such musical deficits may be understood in terms of a problem in the representation of space. If such a link is demonstrated to be causal, it would challenge the prevailing view that deficits in amusia are specific to the musical or even the auditory domain.