Musical ability and non-native speech-sound processing are linked through sensitivity to pitch and spectral information

British Journal of Psychology

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 349-366

  Kempe, Vera ^a   Bublitz, Dennis ^b   Brooks, Patricia J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Musicality; Non native phoneme processing; Pitch acuity; Spectral acuity; Temporal acuity; Tonal contrast; Vowel contrast

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MUSIC; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MUSIC; PHONETICS; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926522533     PISSN: 00071269     EISSN: 20448295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bjop.12092     Document Type: Article

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