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Perceptual pitch deficits coexist with pitch production difficulties in music but not Mandarin speech
Congenital amusia is a musical disorder that mainly affects pitch perception. Among Mandarin speakers, some amusics also have difficulties in processing lexical tones (tone agnosics). To examine to what extent these perceptual deficits may be related to pitch production impairments in music and Mand...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3893622/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24474944 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.01024 |
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author | Yang, Wu-xia Feng, Jie Huang, Wan-ting Zhang, Cheng-xiang Nan, Yun |
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description | Congenital amusia is a musical disorder that mainly affects pitch perception. Among Mandarin speakers, some amusics also have difficulties in processing lexical tones (tone agnosics). To examine to what extent these perceptual deficits may be related to pitch production impairments in music and Mandarin speech, eight amusics, eight tone agnosics, and 12 age- and IQ-matched normal native Mandarin speakers were asked to imitate music note sequences and Mandarin words of comparable lengths. The results indicated that both the amusics and tone agnosics underperformed the controls on musical pitch production. However, tone agnosics performed no worse than the amusics, suggesting that lexical tone perception deficits may not aggravate musical pitch production difficulties. Moreover, these three groups were all able to imitate lexical tones with perfect intelligibility. Taken together, the current study shows that perceptual musical pitch and lexical tone deficits might coexist with musical pitch production difficulties. But at the same time these perceptual pitch deficits might not affect lexical tone production or the intelligibility of the speech words that were produced. The perception-production relationship for pitch among individuals with perceptual pitch deficits may be, therefore, domain-dependent. |
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spelling | pubmed-38936222014-01-28 Perceptual pitch deficits coexist with pitch production difficulties in music but not Mandarin speech Yang, Wu-xia Feng, Jie Huang, Wan-ting Zhang, Cheng-xiang Nan, Yun Front Psychol Psychology Congenital amusia is a musical disorder that mainly affects pitch perception. Among Mandarin speakers, some amusics also have difficulties in processing lexical tones (tone agnosics). To examine to what extent these perceptual deficits may be related to pitch production impairments in music and Mandarin speech, eight amusics, eight tone agnosics, and 12 age- and IQ-matched normal native Mandarin speakers were asked to imitate music note sequences and Mandarin words of comparable lengths. The results indicated that both the amusics and tone agnosics underperformed the controls on musical pitch production. However, tone agnosics performed no worse than the amusics, suggesting that lexical tone perception deficits may not aggravate musical pitch production difficulties. Moreover, these three groups were all able to imitate lexical tones with perfect intelligibility. Taken together, the current study shows that perceptual musical pitch and lexical tone deficits might coexist with musical pitch production difficulties. But at the same time these perceptual pitch deficits might not affect lexical tone production or the intelligibility of the speech words that were produced. The perception-production relationship for pitch among individuals with perceptual pitch deficits may be, therefore, domain-dependent. Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-01-16 /pmc/articles/PMC3893622/ /pubmed/24474944 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.01024 Text en Copyright © 2014 Yang, Feng, Huang, Zhang and Nan. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Yang, Wu-xia Feng, Jie Huang, Wan-ting Zhang, Cheng-xiang Nan, Yun Perceptual pitch deficits coexist with pitch production difficulties in music but not Mandarin speech |
title | Perceptual pitch deficits coexist with pitch production difficulties in music but not Mandarin speech |
title_full | Perceptual pitch deficits coexist with pitch production difficulties in music but not Mandarin speech |
title_fullStr | Perceptual pitch deficits coexist with pitch production difficulties in music but not Mandarin speech |
title_full_unstemmed | Perceptual pitch deficits coexist with pitch production difficulties in music but not Mandarin speech |
title_short | Perceptual pitch deficits coexist with pitch production difficulties in music but not Mandarin speech |
title_sort | perceptual pitch deficits coexist with pitch production difficulties in music but not mandarin speech |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3893622/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24474944 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.01024 |
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