ArticleFrontiers in psychology2011
Disorders of pitch production in tone deafness.
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- Reverse Engineering Tone-Deafness: Disrupting Pitch-Matching by Creating Temporary Dysfunctions in the Auditory-Motor Network.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2018Article
- Uncovering beat deafness: detecting rhythm disorders with synchronized finger tapping and perceptual timing tasks.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2015Article
- Direct and octave-shifted pitch matching during nonword imitations in men, women, and children.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation · 2015Observational
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- Moving to the Beat and Singing are Linked in Humans.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2015Article
- On drawing a line through the spectrogram: how do we understand deficits of vocal pitch imitation?Frontiers in human neuroscience · 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
- How singing works.Frontiers in psychology · 2012Article
- The Relationship between Music and Language.Frontiers in psychology · 2012Article
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Abstract
Singing is as natural as speaking for the majority of people. Yet some individuals (i.e., 10-15%) are poor singers, typically performing or imitating pitches and melodies inaccurately. This condition, commonly referred to as "tone deafness," has been observed both in the presence and absence of deficient pitch perception. In this article we review the existing literature concerning normal singing, poor-pitch singing, and, briefly, the sources of this condition. Considering that pitch plays a prominent role in the structure of both music and speech we also focus on the possibility that speech production (or imitation) is similarly impaired in poor-pitch singers. Preliminary evidence from our laboratory suggests that pitch imitation may be selectively inaccurate in the music domain without being affected in speech. This finding points to separability of mechanisms subserving pitch production in music and language.
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