The actress apologized for the Zhou Huajian incident, and there is a disease worth paying attention to

　　What kind of sour experience is it to listen to people who sing out of tune?

　　After experiencing the New Year's Eve party, it is estimated that many people know about it, and the feeling is probably "singing the first song is original, and it sounds like there are 'surprises' every time".

　　On the evening of December 31, 2023, at the New Year's Eve concert held by Jiangsu Satellite TV, Zhou Huajian, Meng Ziyi and many other artists sang the song "Let Me Rejoice, Let Me Worry" together. Actress Meng Ziyi was complained by netizens that she was "out of tune all the way", and perhaps because of the live broadcast, Meng Ziyi's out-of-tune voice obviously overwhelmed the other chorus.

　　Soon, the two entries related to Mencius Yi # Mencius Yi is out of tune # and # Mencius Yi opened his mouth to scare me to death# rushed to the hot search.

　　Some netizens commented: This time I heard that it was really sung. Some netizens also said: This is a work-related injury for Zhou Huajian.

　　That night, Meng Ziyi posted on Weibo to apologize to Zhou Huajian and his fans: "I'm sorry Brother Zhou Huajian, I'm sorry everyone, I really tried my best, Happy New Year!!"

　　It is indeed possible that Mencius "tried his best", because singing out of tune is really a disease for some people.

　　唱歌跑调？其实是失歌症

　　When singing out of tune, people who sing out of tune will often interpret it as "I am incomplete in five tones" when they sing and make a sound like "ghost crying wolf", and the original meaning of "five tones" refers to the five tones of Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zheng, and Yu in the Chinese pentatonic scale. The "incomplete pentatonic tone" expressed in daily life is not to be precisely speaking, but mainly refers to the inaccurate pitch of the singer and the inability to distinguish the difference in pitch between the notes.

　　There are generally two situations of singing out of tune, the first is out of tune due to the lack of systematic vocal training and the wrong vocal position when singing, which is mainly because of insufficient singing skills. Even if the singing skills are enough, it is not necessarily guaranteed that they will not be out of tune, for example, some celebrities, they have enough singing skills, but they can't avoid the scene of the car accident.

　　The second is that the inaccurate pronunciation is born, and you don't know it when it's out of tune.

　　Although both of these cases are out-of-tune, the first may still have some musical cognitive abilities, such as recognizing pitch, recognizing tunes, and humming tunes. The latter type of inaccurate pronunciation may be due to congenital brain dysplasia or nerve damage that leads to hearing impairment and thus loss of the ability to sing, a condition known as "congenital amnesia", also known as "avocaemia".

　　Athana is a form of music processing disorder that has little to do with our hearing and the quality of our voice. People with acry have no problems with hearing, intelligence, and memory, but they are unable to recognize differences in pitch, rhythm, dynamics, or timbre, or whether they or others are out of tune when singing, or whether the rhythm is consistent.

　　Athania has been around for a long time

　　There have been people who sing out of tune since ancient times, some people are out of tune because of a lack of training, and some people are out of tune because of athemia. Don't think that only the people who eat melons will get and lose songs, there are also big names, such as Darwin, the founder of the theory of evolution, Grant, the 18th President of the United States, and Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States.

　　According to statistics, about 10% of people in the world sing out of tune, and 4% of them are born with desensitization to fine recognition of tone, that is, 4% of people who sing out of tune are out of tune because they have athemia. About 4% of people in the UK suffer from acryria, about 5% in the US and 3.4% in China.

　　The concept of aphasia is not new. As early as 1825, F. Gore proposed that there is a "musical cassette" in a special area of the human brain, which will be damaged after a traumatic event and affect people's musicality. In 1865, the French physician Gianni Lou Bidau first described a series of symptoms of avocia caused by brain damage, although these ideas mostly refer to acquired avocia, such as avocia caused by brain damage.

　　In 1879, it was suggested that aphasia is a type of aphasia, which is caused by differences in the development of functional areas related to the dominant hemispheres of the brain or secondary to other pathologies.

　　In 1890, the German physician Norblok established a cognitive model of music processing on the basis of previous research, and defined amusia for the first time. It was not until 2002 that the first formal research paper on agraphia was published.

　　How to identify a person with avocaemia

　　At present, Peretz's MBEA is a widely used diagnostic tool for music cognitive disorder, which mainly includes three parts: pitch, rhythm and music memory, which can test people's music perception ability through these three parts, so as to distinguish people with athemia. (MBEA：Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia )

　　The MBEA test found that people with avocia have pitch disorders, just as people with color deficiency cannot distinguish colors with similar wavelengths, and people with avocia are unable to respond to semitone changes between pitches.

　　This impaired recognition of pitch will be amplified in the real musical environment, and then music-related memory impairment will occur, and the impaired perception of pitch will affect the processing of rhythm, so patients with aphthasia have problems in three aspects: pitch, rhythm and musical memory.

　　The symptoms of aphasia are manifested in life as if they have normal hearing, intelligence and memory, but they are completely unable to perceive music, even if they have heard the melody thousands of times, it is still a new song in their ears. Of course, they can't hear the dissonant tones, which means that normal people listening to the prickly sound of high and low are not unusual to people with aphasia.

　　They can't sing a song accurately, but since they can't perceive the music, they don't realize they're out of tune, so it's only the onlookers who suffer.

　　People with avocia may also have communication difficulties. Surveys show that 30% of people with avocia have intonation recognition disorders, they cannot accurately distinguish intonation, and can only rely on situations or body language to identify what the speaker wants to say. That is, "going to eat?" Sentences with the same meaning as "going to eat" but with different ideologies due to different intonation cannot be well distinguished by people with aphthasia. So, if you have a boyfriend (or girl) who suffers from aphasia, it's best not to expect them to be able to read the "off-strings" when you speak, for example, if you say "I'm fine, don't worry about me", then this upright boy (or girl) will really think you're okay, after all, he can't accurately identify the subtext when you speak.

　　Why do people suffer from aphasia?

　　Current research shows that aphasia is mainly divided into congenital avocaemia, acquired avocia and "pseudo" aphasia.

　　Asociemia is congenital and hereditary, which is called congenital avocaemia. Studies have found that 39% of people with agloma have immediate family members with academia, and if you were born out of tune, then the root cause of your singing out of tune should be in your previous generation.

　　There are also some acquired diseases caused by academia, such as brain inflammation, hemorrhage, trauma, tumors and other symptoms, or other reasons, resulting in damage to the language center, or improper training during development, lack of musical stimulation, etc.

　　There is also a condition of "pseudo" aphthasia, which may be caused by temporary sudden causes such as too much tension, throat discomfort, etc. This situation is not really out of tune, so there is not much research on this situation.

　　There is still no definite research on why people develop aphasia, but according to the classification of avoca, it can be inferred that avocia is the result of a combination of congenital genetic factors and acquired environmental factors.

　　From the perspective of innate genetic factors, the right hemisphere of the human brain is responsible for human imagination, color, music, rhythm, etc., and genetic reasons will lead to the "musical brain" to produce sound recognition disorders.

　　Studies have also shown that avocia is associated with the development of both frontal lobes of the brain.

　　The motor language center of the left frontal region of the brain is closely related to the clear expression of emotions and the accurate imitation of sound, and the right inferior frontal gyrus plays an important role in pitch perception, responsible for pitch coding, pitch retention and memory. Under normal development, the bilateral inferior frontal gyrus is keenly aware of changes in pitch sequences.

　　In 2009, researchers from the University of Helsinki in Finland conducted a long-term follow-up study on the left or right hemisphere middle cerebral artery of stroke patients, and the results showed that patients with amnesia often have more frontal lobe and auditory cortex lesions.

　　When the anterior temporal lobe of the left hemisphere of the brain is damaged, the patient is prone to lose some or all of his or her ability to recognize notes, sing, play, and enjoy music, and then his singing is out of tune. When the right inferior frontal gyrus is damaged, the patient suffers from pitch recognition, retention, and pitch memory.

　　Other studies have shown that the judgment and processing of pitch is one of the important functions of the temporal lobe of the brain, and the processing of tone and pitch is generally controlled by the auditory cortex in the right temporal region of the brain.

　　The temporal lobe is located below the lateral fissure, above the middle fossa and tentorium, with the frontal lobe anterior, the frontoparietal lobe above, and the occipital lobe posteriorly. This area has the ability to distinguish between melody, pitch, and interval information.

　　The right temporal auditory cortex is responsible for time segmentation, the left temporal auditory cortex is responsible for classification, and cortical motor areas play a role in rhythm perception and production. Therefore, the lack of linkage between the bitemporal region and the neuromotor region is likely to be an important cause of congenital or acquired aphasia.

　　Is there any salvation for singing out of tune?

　　According to the two cases of singing out of tune, not all people who sing out of tune are people with athemia. Some people may sing out of tune only because they have not received orthodox rhythm training, poor musicality, and lack of sensitivity to the rhythm of syllables lead to their "ghost crying wolf" when singing, such people can be corrected through pronunciation training, and theoretically there is still salvation.

　　If it is due to genetic or other reasons for asongsia, there is no cure for such people to sing out of tune. But everything is not so absolute, although there is no cure, but the situation of singing out of tune can be improved through treatment, but it is not so simple to improve, only "starting from the doll", cultivating children's discrimination and sensitivity to sound from an early age, can alleviate or avoid the occurrence of out of tune to a certain extent.

　　Therefore, regardless of whether you are a person with athanemia or not, singing out of tune can be improved, but the difference is that the degree of improvement is different. Of course, Mencius's situation can also be corrected through Xi practice, but perhaps concentrating on being an actor can better resolve the crisis. (Source: China News Weekly)