Schlaug found that his stroke victims who were aphasic, could not form sentences of three- or four-word sentences, but they could still sing the lyrics to a song, whether it was "Happy Birthday To You" or their favorite song by the Eagles or the Rolling Stones.
Schlaug descobriu que as vitimas de ACV que estavam afásicas não podiam formar frases de três ou quatro palavras, mas ainda podiam cantar a letra de uma música, fosse "Parabéns a você" ou a sua música preferida dos Eagles ou dos Rolling Stones.