Music is an integral part of the cultural heritage of all known human societies, with the
capacity for music perception and production present in most people. Researchers generally …

This article provides an overview of P300 research from infancy through adolescence. First,
a brief historical overview is provided highlighting seminal studies that began exploration of …

The present study introduces a novel tool for assessing musical abilities in children: The
Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Musical Abilities (MBEMA). The battery, which comprises …

Congenital amusia is a lifelong disorder characterized by a difficulty in perceiving and
producing music despite normal intelligence and hearing. Behavioral data have indicated …

In normal listeners, the tonal rules of music guide musical expectancy. In a minority of
individuals, known as amusics, the processing of tonality is disordered, which results in …

Abstract The Montreal Battery for the Evaluation of Amusia (MBEA; Peretz, Champod, &
Hyde Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 999, 58–75, 2003) is an empirically …

The emotional experience elicited by music is largely dependent on structural characteristics
such as pitch, rhythm, and dynamics. We examine here to what extent amusic adults, who …

Perception involves integration of multiple dimensions that often serve overlapping,
redundant functions, for example, pitch, duration, and amplitude in speech. Individuals tend …

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 …

Whilst enhanced perception has been widely reported in individuals with Autism Spectrum
Disorders (ASDs), relatively little is known about the developmental trajectory and impact of …