Amusia results in abnormal brain activity following inappropriate intonation during speech comprehension.

Pitch processing is a critical ability on which humans' tonal musical experience depends, and which is also of paramount importance for decoding prosody in speech. Congenital amusia refers to deficits in the ability to properly process musical pitch, and recent evidence has suggested that this...

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Main Authors: Cunmei Jiang, Jeff P Hamm, Vanessa K Lim, Ian J Kirk, Xuhai Chen, Yufang Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3407197?pdf=render