title: Perceiving prosody in speech. Effects of music lessons.
abstract: In two experiments, musically trained and untrained adults were tested on their ability to match spoken utterances with their tonal analogues (tone sequences that retained the pitch and temporal patterns of the utterances). In both cases, musical training was associated with superior performance, indicating an enhanced ability to extract prosodic information from spoken phrases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6, Canada. b.thompson@utoronto.ca
authors.forename: William Forde
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: Thompson
authors.forename: E Glenn
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Schellenberg
authors.forename: Gabriela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Husain
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D009146:Music; D010898:Pitch Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*