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Liu, Fang; Xu, Yi; Patel, Aniruddh D.; Francart, Tom; Jiang, Cunmei – Brain and Cognition, 2012
This study examined whether "melodic contour deafness" (insensitivity to the direction of pitch movement) in congenital amusia is associated with specific types of pitch patterns (discrete versus gliding pitches) or stimulus types (speech syllables versus complex tones). Thresholds for identification of pitch direction were obtained using discrete…
Descriptors: Intonation, Auditory Stimuli, Auditory Perception, Mandarin Chinese
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Hubbard, Timothy L. – Psychological Bulletin, 2010
The empirical literature on auditory imagery is reviewed. Data on (a) imagery for auditory features (pitch, timbre, loudness), (b) imagery for complex nonverbal auditory stimuli (musical contour, melody, harmony, tempo, notational audiation, environmental sounds), (c) imagery for verbal stimuli (speech, text, in dreams, interior monologue), (d)…
Descriptors: Verbal Stimuli, Auditory Stimuli, Schizophrenia, Auditory Discrimination
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Foxton, Jessica M.; Nandy, Rachel K.; Griffiths, Timothy D. – Brain and Cognition, 2006
It is commonly observed that "tone deaf" individuals are unable to hear the beat of a tune, yet deficits on simple timing tests have not been found. In this study, we investigated rhythm processing in nine individuals with congenital amusia ("tone deafness") and nine controls. Participants were presented with pairs of 5-note sequences, and were…
Descriptors: Music, Auditory Stimuli, Auditory Perception, Comparative Analysis