The Amusic Brain: Lost in Music, but Not in Space

Congenital amusia is a neurogenetic disorder of music processing that is currently ascribed to a deficit in pitch processing. A recent study challenges this view and claims the disorder might arise as a consequence of a general spatial-processing deficit. Here, we assessed spatial processing abiliti...

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Autores principales: Tillmann, Barbara, Jolicœur, Pierre, Ishihara, Masami, Gosselin, Nathalie, Bertrand, Olivier, Rossetti, Yves, Peretz, Isabelle
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2858073/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20422050
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010173
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author Tillmann, Barbara
Jolicœur, Pierre
Ishihara, Masami
Gosselin, Nathalie
Bertrand, Olivier
Rossetti, Yves
Peretz, Isabelle
author_facet Tillmann, Barbara
Jolicœur, Pierre
Ishihara, Masami
Gosselin, Nathalie
Bertrand, Olivier
Rossetti, Yves
Peretz, Isabelle
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description Congenital amusia is a neurogenetic disorder of music processing that is currently ascribed to a deficit in pitch processing. A recent study challenges this view and claims the disorder might arise as a consequence of a general spatial-processing deficit. Here, we assessed spatial processing abilities in two independent samples of individuals with congenital amusia by using line bisection tasks (Experiment 1) and a mental rotation task (Experiment 2). Both amusics and controls showed the classical spatial effects on bisection performance and on mental rotation performance, and amusics and controls did not differ from each other. These results indicate that the neurocognitive impairment of congenital amusia does not affect the processing of space.
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spelling pubmed-28580732010-04-26 The Amusic Brain: Lost in Music, but Not in Space Tillmann, Barbara Jolicœur, Pierre Ishihara, Masami Gosselin, Nathalie Bertrand, Olivier Rossetti, Yves Peretz, Isabelle PLoS One Research Article Congenital amusia is a neurogenetic disorder of music processing that is currently ascribed to a deficit in pitch processing. A recent study challenges this view and claims the disorder might arise as a consequence of a general spatial-processing deficit. Here, we assessed spatial processing abilities in two independent samples of individuals with congenital amusia by using line bisection tasks (Experiment 1) and a mental rotation task (Experiment 2). Both amusics and controls showed the classical spatial effects on bisection performance and on mental rotation performance, and amusics and controls did not differ from each other. These results indicate that the neurocognitive impairment of congenital amusia does not affect the processing of space. Public Library of Science 2010-04-21 /pmc/articles/PMC2858073/ /pubmed/20422050 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010173 Text en Tillmann et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Tillmann, Barbara
Jolicœur, Pierre
Ishihara, Masami
Gosselin, Nathalie
Bertrand, Olivier
Rossetti, Yves
Peretz, Isabelle
The Amusic Brain: Lost in Music, but Not in Space
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title_sort amusic brain: lost in music, but not in space
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2858073/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20422050
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010173
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