Statistical learning of speech, not music, in congenital amusia

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1252, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 361-366

  Peretz, Isabelle ^a   Saffran, Jenny ^a,b   Schön, Daniele ^c   Gosselin, Nathalie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives de la Mediterranee   (France)

Author keywords

Amusia; Music; Pitch disorder; Speech; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITION; CONGENITAL AMUSIA; CONGENITAL DEAFNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSIC; PHONATION; SPEECH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84860241830     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06429.x     Document Type: Article

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