Singing in congenital amusia

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 414-424

  Dalla Bella, Simone ^a,b   Gigùre, Jean Fraņois ^c   Peretz, Isabelle ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

^b BRAMS   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICAL ANALYSIS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CONTOUR ERROR; NEURAL PATHWAY; PITCH ERRORS; PITCH PERCEPTION;

ERRORS;

ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BRAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL AMUSIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; SOUND DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION; READING; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VOICE;

EID: 68149112219     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3132504     Document Type: Article

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