Pitch processing in music and speech

The present paper proposes an overview of research that investigates pitch processing by considering cognitive processes (related to context, learning, memory and/or knowledge) for both music and language materials. Research investigating cross-domain influences of expertise (either in music or tone languages) and deficits (as in congenital amusia), referred to as positive and negative transfer effects, also contributes to our understanding of domain-specificity or -generality of mechanisms involved in pitch processing.