Trial reportPsychonomic bulletin & review2013
Auditory imagery and the poor-pitch singer.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 67 citations in OpenAlex.
- Listening in a noisy world: The impact of acoustic cues and background music on speech perception in autism.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2026Article
- Auditory and Semantic Processing of Speech-in-Noise in Autism: A Behavioral and EEG Study.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Article
- Linguistic and Musical Syntax Processing in Autistic and Non-Autistic Individuals: An Event-Related Potential (ERP) Study.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Article
- Auditory imagery ability influences accuracy when singing with altered auditory feedback.Musicae scientiae : the journal of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music · 2024Article
- Exploring the role of singing, semantics, and amusia screening in speech-in-noise perception in musicians and non-musicians.Cognitive processing · 2024Article
- Perception and Production of Statement-Question Intonation in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Developmental Investigation.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022Article
- Individual differences in mental imagery in different modalities and levels of intentionality.Memory & cognition · 2022Article
- Effects of Visual and Auditory Feedback in Violin and Singing Voice Pitch Matching Tasks.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- An Exploratory Study of Imagining Sounds and "Hearing" Music in Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2020Article
- Verbal and Musical Short-Term Memory: Evidence for Shared Serial Order Processes?Psychologica Belgica · 2019Article
- Common cortical areas involved in both auditory and visual imageries for novel stimuli.Experimental brain research · 2019Article
- Roles of Supplementary Motor Areas in Auditory Processing and Auditory Imagery.Trends in neurosciences · 2016Review
- Feel the Noise: Relating Individual Differences in Auditory Imagery to the Structure and Function of Sensorimotor Systems.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2015Article
- The Pitch Imagery Arrow Task: effects of musical training, vividness, and mental control.PloS one · 2015Article
- On drawing a line through the spectrogram: how do we understand deficits of vocal pitch imitation?Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2015Article
- Making and monitoring errors based on altered auditory feedback.Frontiers in psychology · 2014Article
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Abstract
The vocal imitation of pitch by singing requires one to plan laryngeal movements on the basis of anticipated target pitch events. This process may rely on auditory imagery, which has been shown to activate motor planning areas. As such, we hypothesized that poor-pitch singing, although not typically associated with deficient pitch perception, may be associated with deficient auditory imagery. Participants vocally imitated simple pitch sequences by singing, discriminated pitch pairs on the basis of pitch height, and completed an auditory imagery self-report questionnaire (the Bucknell Auditory Imagery Scale). The percentage of trials participants sung in tune correlated significantly with self-reports of vividness for auditory imagery, although not with the ability to control auditory imagery. Pitch discrimination was not predicted by auditory imagery scores. The results thus support a link between auditory imagery and vocal imitation.
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