Relating pitch awareness to phonemic awareness in children: Implications for tone-deafness and dyslexia

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue MAY, 2011, Pages

  Loui, Psyche ^a   Kroog, Kenneth ^b   Zuk, Jennifer ^a   Winner, Ellen ^b,c   Schlaug, Gottfried ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Dyslexia; Language; Music; Phonemic awareness; Pitch perception; Production; Tone deafness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856701050     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00111     Document Type: Article

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