Amusia results in abnormal brain activity following inappropriate intonation during speech comprehension

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Jiang, Cunmei ^a,b   Hamm, Jeff P ^c   Lim, Vanessa K ^c   Kirk, Ian J ^c   Chen, Xuhai ^d   Yang, Yufang ^b  

^a SHANGHAI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMUSIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MUSIC; PITCH; RATING SCALE; SEMANTICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPREHENSION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864402750     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041411     Document Type: Article

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