A growing body of research suggests that musical training has a beneficial impact on
speech processing (eg, hearing of speech in noise and prosody perception). As this …

The Sense of Hearing is a highly accessible introduction to auditory perception, addressing
the fundamental aspects of hearing. This fourth edition has been revised to include up-to …

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

Music and speech are often cited as characteristically human forms of communication. Both
share the features of hierarchical structure, complex sound systems, and sensorimotor …

A number of evolutionary theories assume that music and language have a common origin
as an emotional protolanguage that remains evident in overlapping functions and shared …

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 …

Congenital amusia is a neuro-developmental disorder of pitch perception that causes
severe problems with music processing but only subtle difficulties in speech processing …

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 …

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