title: Tonal language processing in congenital amusia.
abstract: Twenty amusic and 20 control speakers of French were presented with pairs of Mandarin lexical tones to discriminate as same or different. Results revealed that even if the amusic group performed significantly below the control group, the scores of the two groups largely overlapped, with only 15% of the amusic group performing outside the normal variations. Thus, the findings suggest a modest transfer of deficit between music and speech, which in turn calls for further work in order to identify the nature of the mediating factors.
authors: BRAMS, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.
authors: Sébastien
authors: S
authors: Nguyen
authors: Barbara
authors: B
authors: Tillmann
authors: Nathalie
authors: N
authors: Gosselin
authors: Isabelle
authors: I
authors: Peretz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001308:Auditory Perceptual Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009146:Music; D010898:Pitch Perception / Q000502:physiology; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult