Singing provides a unique opportunity to examine music performance—the musical
instrument is contained wholly within the body, thus eliminating the need for creating …

In Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance (2nd edition), the authors consider
music on a broad scale, from its beginning as an acoustical signal to its different …

In contrast to the sophisticated music processing reported in the general population,
individuals with congenital amusia show deficits in music perception and production …

Singing is a cultural universal and an important part of modern society, yet many people fail
to sing in tune. Many possible causes have been posited to explain poor singing abilities; …

There has been a recent surge of research on the topic of poor-pitch singing. However, this
research has not addressed an important distinction in measurement: that between accuracy …

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 degree to which cognitive resources are shared in the processing of musical pitch and
lexical tones remains uncertain. Testing Mandarin amusics on their categorical perception of …

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 …

International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research (BRAMS), Department of
Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada p0025 When I began to …

Language and music epitomize the complex representational and computational capacities
of the human mind. Strikingly similar in their structural and expressive features, a …