Cortical correlates of acquired deafness to dissonance.
Patient I.R., who had bilateral lesions in the auditory cortex but intact hearing, did not distinguish dissonant from consonant musical excerpts in behavioral testing. We additionally found that the electrical brain responses did not differentiate musical intervals in terms of their dissonance/consonance, consistent with the idea that this phenomenon depends on the integrity of cortical functions.
Brattico
Elvira
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Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki FIN-00014, Finland. elvira@cbru.helsinki.fi
Tervaniemi
Mari
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Valimaki
Vesa
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Van Zuijen
Titia
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Peretz
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D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000328:Adult; D001303:Auditory Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003638:Deafness / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009146:Music