Congenital amusia is a neuro-developmental disorder of music perception and production,
with the observed deficits contrasting with the sophisticated music processing reported for …

Some individuals show a congenital deficit for music processing despite normal peripheral
auditory processing, cognitive functioning, and music exposure. This condition, termed …

To investigate whether working memory and visual processing have the same role or
different roles in A/B and A/not A prototype category learning, the present study adopted an …

Perception is fundamentally a multisensory experience. The principle of inverse
effectiveness (PoIE) states how the multisensory gain is maximal when responses to the …

Congenital amusia is a neurodevelopmental disorder of musical processing. Previous
research demonstrates that although explicit musical processing is impaired in congenital …

Music is a unique communication system for human beings. Iconic musical meaning is one
dimension of musical meaning, which emerges from musical information resembling sounds …

Individuals with congenital amusia usually exhibit impairments in melodic contour
processing when asked to compare pairs of melodies that may or may not be identical to …

This chapter focuses on the topic referred to as cognitive benefits of music training, musical
and nonmusical abilities, and brain plasticity. Several thorough and thought-provoking …

Congenital amusia is characterized by lifelong impairments in music perception and
processing. It is unclear whether pitch detection deficits impact amusic individuals' …

In order to increase perceptual precision the adult brain dynamically combines redundant
information from different senses depending on their reliability. During object size …