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On drawing a line through the spectrogram: how do we understand deficits of vocal pitch imitation?

In recent years there has been a remarkable increase in research focusing on deficits of pitch production in singing. A critical concern has been the identification of “poor pitch singers,” which we refer to more generally as individuals having a “vocal pitch imitation deficit.” The present paper in...

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Autores principales: Pfordresher, Peter Q., Larrouy-Maestri, Pauline
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4432667/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26029088
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00271
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description In recent years there has been a remarkable increase in research focusing on deficits of pitch production in singing. A critical concern has been the identification of “poor pitch singers,” which we refer to more generally as individuals having a “vocal pitch imitation deficit.” The present paper includes a critical assessment of the assumption that vocal pitch imitation abilities can be treated as a dichotomy. Though this practice may be useful for data analysis and may be necessary within educational practice, we argue that this approach is complicated by a series of problems. Moreover, we argue that a more informative (and less problematic) approach comes from analyzing vocal pitch imitation abilities on a continuum, referred to as effect magnitude regression, and offer examples concerning how researchers may analyze data using this approach. We also argue that the understanding of this deficit may be better served by focusing on the effects of experimental manipulations on different individuals, rather than attempt to treat values of individual measures, and isolated tasks, as absolute measures of ability.
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spelling pubmed-44326672015-05-29 On drawing a line through the spectrogram: how do we understand deficits of vocal pitch imitation? Pfordresher, Peter Q. Larrouy-Maestri, Pauline Front Hum Neurosci Neuroscience In recent years there has been a remarkable increase in research focusing on deficits of pitch production in singing. A critical concern has been the identification of “poor pitch singers,” which we refer to more generally as individuals having a “vocal pitch imitation deficit.” The present paper includes a critical assessment of the assumption that vocal pitch imitation abilities can be treated as a dichotomy. Though this practice may be useful for data analysis and may be necessary within educational practice, we argue that this approach is complicated by a series of problems. Moreover, we argue that a more informative (and less problematic) approach comes from analyzing vocal pitch imitation abilities on a continuum, referred to as effect magnitude regression, and offer examples concerning how researchers may analyze data using this approach. We also argue that the understanding of this deficit may be better served by focusing on the effects of experimental manipulations on different individuals, rather than attempt to treat values of individual measures, and isolated tasks, as absolute measures of ability. Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4432667/ /pubmed/26029088 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00271 Text en Copyright © 2015 Pfordresher and Larrouy-Maestri. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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.
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title On drawing a line through the spectrogram: how do we understand deficits of vocal pitch imitation?
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title_short On drawing a line through the spectrogram: how do we understand deficits of vocal pitch imitation?
title_sort on drawing a line through the spectrogram: how do we understand deficits of vocal pitch imitation?
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4432667/
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