Amusia Results in Abnormal Brain Activity following Inappropriate Intonation during Speech Comprehension
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Amusia Results in Abnormal Brain Activity following Inappropriate Intonation during Speech Comprehension
Pitch processing is a critical ability on which humans' tonal musical experience depends, and which is also of paramount importance for decoding prosody in speech. Congenital amusia refers to deficits in the ability to properly process musical pitch, and recent evidence has suggested that this musical pitch disorder may impact upon the processing of speech sounds. Here we present the first elec...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041411