Research note: Exceptional absolute pitch perception for spoken words in an able adult with autism

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2095-2098

  Heaton, Pamela ^a   Davis, Robert E ^a   Happé, Francesca G E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Absolute pitch; Autism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUTISM; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTELLECT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MUSICIAN; PITCH; POST HOC ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; SPEECH; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CONTROL GROUPS; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; MUSIC; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PITCH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 44349116212     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.02.006     Document Type: Article

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