Musical expertise and statistical learning of musical and linguistic structures

Adults and infants can use the statistical properties of syllable sequences to extract words from continuous speech. Here we present a review of a series of electrophysiological studies investigating 1) Speech segmentation resulting from exposure to spoken and sung sequences 2) The extraction of lin...

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Main Authors: Clément eFrancois, Daniele eSchön
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00167/full