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| Title |
Congenital Amusia (or Tone-Deafness) Interferes with Pitch Processing in Tone Languages
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2011
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00120 |
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| Authors |
Barbara Tillmann, Denis Burnham, Sebastien Nguyen, Nicolas Grimault, Nathalie Gosselin, Isabelle Peretz |
| Abstract |
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 amusics and matched controls, all non-tonal language speakers, were tested for lexical tone discrimination in Mandarin Chinese (Experiment 1) and in Thai (Experiment 2). Tones were presented in pairs and participants were required to make same/different judgments. Experiment 2 additionally included musical analogs of Thai tones for comparison. Performance of congenital amusics was inferior to that of controls for all materials, suggesting a domain-general pitch-processing deficit. The pitch deficit of amusia is thus not limited to music, but may compromise the ability to process and learn tonal languages. Combined with acoustic analyses of the tone material, the present findings provide new insights into the nature of the pitch-processing deficit exhibited by amusics. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Mexico | 1 | 1% |
| China | 1 | 1% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 92 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 22 | 23% |
| Student > Master | 19 | 20% |
| Researcher | 10 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 9 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 17 | 18% |
| Unknown | 14 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 22 | 23% |
| Linguistics | 20 | 21% |
| Neuroscience | 11 | 11% |
| Arts and Humanities | 9 | 9% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 5% |
| Other | 11 | 11% |
| Unknown | 19 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 November 2020.
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