"If you provide them with much more sophisticated material like letters, printed material, music, or any kind of very highly structured material, you realise that their peaks of ability come out, " said Dr Mottron.

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Technology has done to the marketing of recorded music what it did a decade ago to the publishing of the printed word--lowered the barrier to entry down to just about zero.

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The greatly admired collection was printed more than a record forty times in the eighteenth century, and generations of composers copied the music and learned the sonata form by studying the twelve sonatas.

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