Tone Language Speakers and Musicians Share Enhanced Perceptual and Cognitive Abilities for Musical Pitch: Evidence for Bidirectionality between the Domains of Language and Music

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Bidelman, Gavin M ^a   Hutka, Stefanie ^b,c   Moreno, Sylvain ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL TASK; MUSIC; MUSICIAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84875681844     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060676     Document Type: Article

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