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Gary Marcus Learning To Crawl

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“Learning to Crawl” is one of the contents included in the book, Guitar Zero. It was published in 2012, and written by Gary Marcus, who is a psychology professor at New York University. Throughout this article, Marcus discusses whether a music talent is inborn or developed. He provides several his experiments and comparisons as pieces of evidence to approach his claim. Marcus eventually claims that “music mind develops only we put in years of hard work” (Marcus 181), but it is not something people are born with. To back up his claim, he provides two psychological evidence in the article. The first evidence is that most children struggle to distinguish discrete notes. Marcus gives an example of little kids singing a song to show how this first
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