Congenital amusias

B Tillmann, P Albouy, A Caclin - Handbook of clinical neurology, 2015 - Elsevier
In contrast to the sophisticated music processing reported in the general population,
individuals with congenital amusia show deficits in music perception and production …

Meta-analytic evidence for the non-modularity of pitch processing in congenital amusia

DT Vuvan, M Nunes-Silva, I Peretz - Cortex, 2015 - Elsevier
A major theme driving research in congenital amusia is related to the modularity of this
musical disorder, with two possible sources of the amusic pitch perception deficit. The first …

A music perception disorder (congenital amusia) influences speech comprehension

F Liu, C Jiang, B Wang, Y Xu, AD Patel - Neuropsychologia, 2015 - Elsevier
This study investigated the underlying link between speech and music by examining
whether and to what extent congenital amusia, a musical disorder characterized by …

Brainstem encoding of speech and musical stimuli in congenital amusia: evidence from Cantonese speakers

F Liu, AR Maggu, JCY Lau, PCM Wong - Frontiers in human …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Congenital amusia is a neurodevelopmental disorder of musical processing that also
impacts subtle aspects of speech processing. It remains debated at what stage (s) of …

Deficits of congenital amusia beyond pitch: Evidence from impaired categorical perception of vowels in Cantonese-speaking congenital amusics

C Zhang, J Shao, X Huang - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Congenital amusia is a lifelong disorder of fine-grained pitch processing in music and
speech. However, it remains unclear whether amusia is a pitch-specific deficit, or whether it …

Revising the diagnosis of congenital amusia with the Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia

J Pfeifer, S Hamann - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2015 - frontiersin.org
This article presents a critical survey of the prevalent usage of the Montreal Battery of
Evaluation of Amusia (MBEA;) to assess congenital amusia, a neuro-developmental …

The form and function processing of lexical tone and intonation in tone-language-speaking children with autism spectrum disorder

L Wang, S Xiao, C Jiang, Q Hou, AHD Chan… - The Journal of the …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Studies on how the form versus function aspect of tone and intonation is processed by
autistic individuals have mainly focused on speakers of non-tonal languages (eg, English) …

Pitch perception and production in congenital amusia: Evidence from Cantonese speakers

F Liu, AHD Chan, V Ciocca, C Roquet… - The Journal of the …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
This study investigated pitch perception and production in speech and music in individuals
with congenital amusia (a disorder of musical pitch processing) who are native speakers of …

Individuals with autism spectrum disorder are impaired in absolute but not relative pitch and duration matching in speech and song imitation

L Wang, PQ Pfordresher, C Jiang, F Liu - Autism Research, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often exhibit atypical imitation. However,
few studies have identified clear quantitative characteristics of vocal imitation in ASD. This …

The Linked Dual Representation model of vocal perception and production

S Hutchins, S Moreno - Frontiers in psychology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
The voice is one of the most important media for communication, yet there is a wide range of
abilities in both the perception and production of the voice. In this article, we review this …