Effects of culture on musical pitch perception.

The strong association between music and speech has been supported by recent research focusing on musicians' superior abilities in second language learning and neural encoding of foreign speech sounds. However, evidence for a double association--the influence of linguistic background on music p...

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Main Authors: Patrick C M Wong, Valter Ciocca, Alice H D Chan, Louisa Y Y Ha, Li-Hai Tan, Isabelle Peretz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3324485?pdf=render