Perceiving prosody in speech. Effects of music lessons.
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.
Thompson
William Forde
WF
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6, Canada. b.thompson@utoronto.ca
Schellenberg
E Glenn
EG
Husain
Gabriela
G
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*