TY - JOUR
T1 - Tonal language processing in congenital amusia
AU - Nguyen, Sébastien
AU - Tillmann, Barbara
AU - Gosselin, Nathalie
AU - Peretz, Isabelle
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Twenty amusic and 20 control speakers of French were presented with pairs of Mandarin lexical tones to discriminate as same or different. Results revealed that even if the amusic group performed significantly below the control group, the scores of the two groups largely overlapped, with only 15% of the amusic group performing outside the normal variations. Thus, the findings suggest a modest transfer of deficit between music and speech, which in turn calls for further work in order to identify the nature of the mediating factors.
AB - Twenty amusic and 20 control speakers of French were presented with pairs of Mandarin lexical tones to discriminate as same or different. Results revealed that even if the amusic group performed significantly below the control group, the scores of the two groups largely overlapped, with only 15% of the amusic group performing outside the normal variations. Thus, the findings suggest a modest transfer of deficit between music and speech, which in turn calls for further work in order to identify the nature of the mediating factors.
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/549837
U2 - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04855.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04855.x
M3 - Article
SN - 0077-8923
VL - 1169
SP - 490
EP - 493
JO - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
JF - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
IS - 1
ER -