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Congenital Amusia (or Tone-Deafness) Interferes with Pitch Processing in Tone Languages

Congenital amusia is a neurogenetic disorder that affects music processing and that is ascribed to a deficit in pitch processing. We investigated whether this deficit extended to pitch processing in speech, notably the pitch changes used to contrast lexical tones in tonal languages. Congenital amusi...

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Autores principales: Tillmann, Barbara, Burnham, Denis, Nguyen, Sebastien, Grimault, Nicolas, Gosselin, Nathalie, Peretz, Isabelle
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Research Foundation 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3119887/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21734894
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00120