Evidence for Shared Cognitive Processing of Pitch in Music and Language

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Perrachione, Tyler K ^a   Fedorenko, Evelina G ^a   Vinke, Louis ^b   Gibson, Edward ^a   Dilley, Laura C ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MUSIC; PERCEPTION; PITCH; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINEAR MODELS; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION; SELF REPORT; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84881571919     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073372     Document Type: Article

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