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Preserved appreciation of aesthetic elements of speech and music prosody in an amusic individual: A holistic approach

We present a follow-up study on the case of a Greek amusic adult, B.Z., whose impaired performance on scale, contour, interval, and meter was reported by Paraskevopoulos, Tsapkini, and Peretz in 2010, employing a culturally-tailored version of the Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia. In the pre...

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Autores principales: Loutrari, Ariadne, Lorch, Marjorie Perlman
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Academic Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5434247/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28371645
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2017.03.010
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description We present a follow-up study on the case of a Greek amusic adult, B.Z., whose impaired performance on scale, contour, interval, and meter was reported by Paraskevopoulos, Tsapkini, and Peretz in 2010, employing a culturally-tailored version of the Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia. In the present study, we administered a novel set of perceptual judgement tasks designed to investigate the ability to appreciate holistic prosodic aspects of ‘expressiveness’ and emotion in phrase length music and speech stimuli. Our results show that, although diagnosed as a congenital amusic, B.Z. scored as well as healthy controls (N = 24) on judging ‘expressiveness’ and emotional prosody in both speech and music stimuli. These findings suggest that the ability to make perceptual judgements about such prosodic qualities may be preserved in individuals who demonstrate difficulties perceiving basic musical features such as melody or rhythm. B.Z.’s case yields new insights into amusia and the processing of speech and music prosody through a holistic approach. The employment of novel stimuli with relatively fewer non-naturalistic manipulations, as developed for this study, may be a useful tool for revealing unexplored aspects of music and speech cognition and offer the possibility to further the investigation of the perception of acoustic streams in more authentic auditory conditions.
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spelling pubmed-54342472017-07-01 Preserved appreciation of aesthetic elements of speech and music prosody in an amusic individual: A holistic approach Loutrari, Ariadne Lorch, Marjorie Perlman Brain Cogn Case Study We present a follow-up study on the case of a Greek amusic adult, B.Z., whose impaired performance on scale, contour, interval, and meter was reported by Paraskevopoulos, Tsapkini, and Peretz in 2010, employing a culturally-tailored version of the Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia. In the present study, we administered a novel set of perceptual judgement tasks designed to investigate the ability to appreciate holistic prosodic aspects of ‘expressiveness’ and emotion in phrase length music and speech stimuli. Our results show that, although diagnosed as a congenital amusic, B.Z. scored as well as healthy controls (N = 24) on judging ‘expressiveness’ and emotional prosody in both speech and music stimuli. These findings suggest that the ability to make perceptual judgements about such prosodic qualities may be preserved in individuals who demonstrate difficulties perceiving basic musical features such as melody or rhythm. B.Z.’s case yields new insights into amusia and the processing of speech and music prosody through a holistic approach. The employment of novel stimuli with relatively fewer non-naturalistic manipulations, as developed for this study, may be a useful tool for revealing unexplored aspects of music and speech cognition and offer the possibility to further the investigation of the perception of acoustic streams in more authentic auditory conditions. Academic Press 2017-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5434247/ /pubmed/28371645 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2017.03.010 Text en © 2017 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_full Preserved appreciation of aesthetic elements of speech and music prosody in an amusic individual: A holistic approach
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title_short Preserved appreciation of aesthetic elements of speech and music prosody in an amusic individual: A holistic approach
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5434247/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28371645
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2017.03.010
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