ArticleAdvances in cognitive psychology2009
Acquired and congenital disorders of sung performance: A review.
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- Auditory imagery and the poor-pitch singer.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2013Trial
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- Neural pathways underlying the production of pitch and rhythm in aphasia.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Article
- Long-term music instruction is partially associated with the development of socioemotional skills.PloS one · 2024Article
- What Makes a Foreign Language Intelligible? An Examination of the Impact of Musical Ability and Individual Differences on Language Perception and How Intelligible Foreign Languages Appear.Journal of Intelligence · 2023Article
- Long-Term Impacts of Early Musical Abilities on Academic Achievement: A Longitudinal Study.Journal of Intelligence · 2022Article
- Examining Individual Differences in Singing, Musical and Tone Language Ability in Adolescents and Young Adults with Dyslexia.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Effects of intention in the imitation of sung and spoken pitch.Psychological research · 2022Article
- Musical Performance in Adolescents with ADHD, ADD and Dyslexia-Behavioral and Neurophysiological Aspects.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Musical abilities in children with developmental cerebellar anomalies.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2022Article
- Internal cueing improves gait more than external cueing in healthy adults and people with Parkinson disease.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Editorial: Modulating Cortical Dynamics in Language, Speech and Music.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2018Article
- Perception of Musical Emotion in the Students with Cognitive and Acquired Hearing Loss.Iranian journal of child neurology · 2018Article
- Neurological and developmental approaches to poor pitch perception and production.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2015Review
- On drawing a line through the spectrogram: how do we understand deficits of vocal pitch imitation?Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2015Article
- Singing abilities in children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI).Frontiers in psychology · 2015Article
- Perceptual pitch deficits coexist with pitch production difficulties in music but not Mandarin speech.Frontiers in psychology · 2013Article
- Uncovering phenotypes of poor-pitch singing: the Sung Performance Battery (SPB).Frontiers in psychology · 2013Article
- The neural control of singing.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2013Article
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Abstract
Many believe that the majority of people are unable to carry a tune. Yet, this widespread idea underestimates the singing abilities of the layman. Most occasional singers can sing in tune and in time, provided that they perform at a slow tempo. Here we characterize proficient singing in the general population and identify its neuronal underpinnings by reviewing behavioral and neuroimaging studies. In addition, poor singing resulting from a brain injury or neurogenetic disorder (i.e., tone deafness or congenital amusia) is examined. Different lines of evidence converge in indicating that poor singing is not a monolithic deficit. A variety of poor-singing "phenotypes" are described, with or without concurrent perceptual deficits. In addition, particular attention is paid to the dissociations between specific abilities in poor singers (e.g., production of absolute vs. relative pitch, pitch vs. time accuracy). Such diversity of impairments in poor singers can be traced to different faulty mechanisms within the vocal sensorimotor loop, such as pitch perception and sensorimotor integration.
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