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Cortical Correlates of Acquired Deafness to Dissonance
Author(s) -
BRATTICO ELVIRA,
TERVANIEMI MARI,
VALIMAKI VESA,
ZUIJEN TITIA,
PERETZ ISABELLE
Publication year - 2003
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 - 10.1196/annals.1284.019
Subject(s) - consonance and dissonance , cognitive dissonance , psychology , auditory cortex , consonant , neuroscience , audiology , musical , cognitive psychology , phenomenon , cortex (anatomy) , linguistics , medicine , social psychology , acoustics , physics , art , philosophy , vowel , quantum mechanics , visual arts
A bstract : Patient I.R., who had bilateral lesions in the auditory cortex but intact hearing, did not distinguish dissonant from consonant musical excerpts in behavioral testing. We additionally found that the electrical brain responses did not differentiate musical intervals in terms of their dissonance/consonance, consistent with the idea that this phenomenon depends on the integrity of cortical functions.