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The Mechanism of Speech Processing in Congenital Amusia: Evidence from Mandarin Speakers

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作者Liu, Fang1; Jiang, Cunmei2; Thompson, William Forde3; Xu, Yi4; Yang, Yufang5; Stewart, Lauren6
刊名PLOS ONE
出版日期2012-02-08
卷号7期号:2页码:1-11
ISSN号1932-6203
产权排序5
通讯作者Liu, F (reprint author), Stanford Univ, Ctr Study Language & Informat, Stanford, CA 94305 USA.
英文摘要Congenital amusia is a neuro-developmental disorder of pitch perception that causes severe problems with music processing but only subtle difficulties in speech processing. This study investigated speech processing in a group of Mandarin speakers with congenital amusia. Thirteen Mandarin amusics and thirteen matched controls participated in a set of tone and intonation perception tasks and two pitch threshold tasks. Compared with controls, amusics showed impaired performance on word discrimination in natural speech and their gliding tone analogs. They also performed worse than controls on discriminating gliding tone sequences derived from statements and questions, and showed elevated thresholds for pitch change detection and pitch direction discrimination. However, they performed as well as controls on word identification, and on statement-question identification and discrimination in natural speech. Overall, tasks that involved multiple acoustic cues to communicative meaning were not impacted by amusia. Only when the tasks relied mainly on pitch sensitivity did amusics show impaired performance compared to controls. These findings help explain why amusia only affects speech processing in subtle ways. Further studies on a larger sample of Mandarin amusics and on amusics of other language backgrounds are needed to consolidate these results.
学科主题Medical psychology
收录类别SCI
项目简介This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (grant number PTA-026-27-2480-A to FL). The authors would also like to thank Professor Patrick Suppes (Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University) for his financial support to FL. No additional external funding was received for this study. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
语种英语
WOS记录号WOS:000302730100010
源URL[http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/13299]  
专题心理研究所_认知与发展心理学研究室
作者单位1.Stanford Univ, Ctr Study Language & Informat, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
2.Shanghai Normal Univ, Mus Coll, Shanghai, Peoples R China
3.Macquarie Univ, Dept Psychol, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
4.UCL, Dept Speech Hearing & Phonet Sci, London, England
5.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China
6.Univ London, Dept Psychol, London, England
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Liu, Fang,Jiang, Cunmei,Thompson, William Forde,et al. The Mechanism of Speech Processing in Congenital Amusia: Evidence from Mandarin Speakers[J]. PLOS ONE,2012,7(2):1-11.
APA Liu, Fang,Jiang, Cunmei,Thompson, William Forde,Xu, Yi,Yang, Yufang,&Stewart, Lauren.(2012).The Mechanism of Speech Processing in Congenital Amusia: Evidence from Mandarin Speakers.PLOS ONE,7(2),1-11.
MLA Liu, Fang,et al."The Mechanism of Speech Processing in Congenital Amusia: Evidence from Mandarin Speakers".PLOS ONE 7.2(2012):1-11.

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