Identification of changes along a continuum of speech intonation is impaired in congenital amusia

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 1, Issue DEC, 2010, Pages 1-8

  Hutchins, Sean ^a   Gosselin, Nathalie ^a   Peretz, Isabelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Congenital amusia; Pitch; Prosody; Speech

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855719860     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00236     Document Type: Article

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