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Tonal Language Processing in Congenital Amusia
Author(s) -
Nguyen Sébastien,
Tillmann Barbara,
Gosselin Nathalie,
Peretz Isabelle
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04855.x
Subject(s) - psychology , audiology , control (management) , mandarin chinese , transfer (computing) , cognitive psychology , communication , linguistics , medicine , computer science , artificial intelligence , philosophy , parallel computing
Twenty amusic and 20 control speakers of French were presented with pairs of Mandarin lexical tones to discriminate as same or different. Results revealed that even if the amusic group performed significantly below the control group, the scores of the two groups largely overlapped, with only 15% of the amusic group performing outside the normal variations. Thus, the findings suggest a modest transfer of deficit between music and speech, which in turn calls for further work in order to identify the nature of the mediating factors.