Disorders of pitch production in tone deafness

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue JUL, 2011, Pages

  Bella, Simone Dalla ^a,b   Berkowska, Magdalena ^a   Sowiński, Jakub ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

^b International Laboratory for Brain Music and Sound (BRAMS)   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognitive neuroscience; Congenital amusia; Music cognition; Pitch production; Poor pitch singing; Speech production; Tone deafness; Vocal performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860251196     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00164     Document Type: Review

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