| The Mechanism of Speech Processing in Congenital Amusia: Evidence from Mandarin Speakers | |
Liu, Fang1; Jiang, Cunmei2; Thompson, William Forde3; Xu, Yi4; Yang, Yufang5 ; Stewart, Lauren6; Liu, F (reprint author), Stanford Univ, Ctr Study Language & Informat, Stanford, CA 94305 USA.
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| 心理所单位排序 | 5 |
| 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. |
| 学科领域 | Medical Psychology |
| 2012-02-08 | |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 发表期刊 | PLOS ONE
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| ISSN | 1932-6203 |
| 卷号 | 7期号:2页码:1-11 |
| 期刊论文类型 | Article |
| 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. |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000302730100010 |
| 资助机构 | Economic and Social Research Council [PTA-026-27-2480-A] ; Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University |
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/13299 |
| 专题 | 认知与发展心理学研究室 |
| 通讯作者 | Liu, F (reprint author), Stanford Univ, Ctr Study Language & Informat, Stanford, CA 94305 USA. |
| 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 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | 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.,...&Liu, F .(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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