Speech and music shape the listening brain: evidence for shared domain-general mechanisms

SS Asaridou, JM McQueen - Frontiers in psychology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Are there bi-directional influences between speech perception and music perception? An
answer to this question is essential for understanding the extent to which the speech and …

Reduced sensitivity to emotional prosody in congenital amusia rekindles the musical protolanguage hypothesis

WF Thompson, MM Marin… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
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 …

The montreal protocol for identification of amusia

DT Vuvan, S Paquette, G Mignault Goulet… - Behavior research …, 2018 - Springer
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 …

Perception of melodic contour and intonation in autism spectrum disorder: Evidence from Mandarin speakers

J Jiang, F Liu, X Wan, C Jiang - Journal of autism and developmental …, 2015 - Springer
Tone language experience benefits pitch processing in music and speech for typically
developing individuals. No known studies have examined pitch processing in individuals …

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 …

Prosodic structure as a parallel to musical structure

CC Heffner, LR Slevc - Frontiers in psychology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
What structural properties do language and music share? Although early speculation
identified a wide variety of possibilities, the literature has largely focused on the parallels …

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 …