Native experience with a tone language enhances pitch discrimination and the timing of neural responses to pitch change

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue AUG, 2011, Pages

  Giuliano, Ryan J ^a   Pfordresher, Peter Q ^b   Stanley, Emily M ^c   Narayana, Shalini ^d   Wicha, Nicole Y Y ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cognitive neuroscience; Auditory perception; Event related potentials; Mandarin chinese; Neural plasticity; Pitch discrimination; Pitch interval discrimination; Tone language

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859566427     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00146     Document Type: Article

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