Speech Intonation Perception Deficits in Musical Tone Deafness (Congenital Amusia).
Patel, Aniruddh D.
Peretz, Isabelle.
2008
- To what extent do music and language share neural mechanisms for processing pitch patterns? Musical tone-deafness (amusia) provides important evidence on this question. Amusics have problems with musical melody perception, yet early work suggested that they had no problems with the perception of speech intonation (Ayotte, Peretz, & Hyde, 2002) However, here we show that about 30% of amusics from ... read moreindependent studies (British and French-Canadian) have difficulty discriminating a statement from a question on the basis of a final pitch fall or rise. This suggests that pitch direction perception deficits in amusia (known from previous psychophysical work) can extend to speech. For British amusics, the direction deficit is related to the rate of change of the final pitch glide in statements/ questions, with increased discrimination difficulty when rates are relatively slow. These findings suggest that amusia provides a useful window on the neural relations between melodic processing in language and music.read less
- Published as Patel AD, Wong M, Foxton J, Lochy A, Peretz I (2008) Speech Intonation Perception Deficits in Musical Tone Deafness (Congenital Amusia). Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal 25(4): 357-368. doi: 10.1525/mp.2008.25.4.357. © 2008 by the Regents of the University of California. Copying and permissions notice: Authorization to copy this content beyond fair use (as specified in Sections 107 and 108 of the U. S. Copyright Law) for internal or personal use, or the internal or personal use of specific clients, is granted by the Regents of the University of California for libraries and other users, provided that they are registered with and pay the specified fee via Rightslink® or directly with the Copyright Clearance Center.
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