Periodicity Pitch Perception [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020 This study presents a computational model to reproduce the biological dynamics of “listening to music.” A biologically plausible model of periodicity pitch detection is proposed and simulated.
Frank Klefenz +3 more
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Erratum: Periodicity Pitch Perception [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020 Frontiers Production Office
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Musical Pitch Perception and Categorization in Listeners with No Musical Training Experience: Insights from Mandarin-Speaking Non-Musicians [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesPitch is a fundamental element in music. While most previous studies on musical pitch have focused on musicians, our understanding of musical pitch perception in non-musicians is still limited.
Jie Liang +6 more
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Enduring musician advantage among former musicians in prosodic pitch perception [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Musical training has been associated with various cognitive benefits, one of which is enhanced speech perception. However, most findings have been based on musicians taking part in ongoing music lessons and practice.
Xin Ru Toh +4 more
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Relating Pitch Awareness to Phonemic Awareness in Children: Implications for Tone-Deafness and Dyslexia [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2011 Language and music are complex cognitive and neural functions that rely on awareness of one’s own sound productions. Information on the awareness of vocal pitch, and its relation to phonemic awareness which is crucial for learning to read, will be ...
Psyche eLoui +4 more
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Musicianship Influences Language Effect on Musical Pitch Perception [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Given its practical implications, the effect of musicianship on language learning has been vastly researched. Interestingly, growing evidence also suggests that language experience can facilitate music perception.
William Choi
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The comparative effects of Cantonese and Mandarin tone language backgrounds on musical pitch perception [PDF]
Scientific ReportsExisting studies on language-to-music language transfer suggest that tone language background enhances musical pitch perception. However, tone language background was underrepresented as a binary yes-or-no variable in these studies.
William Choi, Lok Yan Chan
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Enhanced sensitivity to pitch perception and its possible relation to language acquisition in autism [PDF]
Autism and Developmental Language ImpairmentsBackground and aims Fascinations for or aversions to particular sounds are a familiar feature of autism, as is an ability to reproduce another person's utterances, precisely copying the other person's prosody as well as their words.
Megumi Hisaizumi, Digby Tantam
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Pitch perception in school-aged children: Pure tones, resolved and unresolved harmonics [PDF]
JASA Express LettersPitch perception affects children's ability to perceive speech, appreciate music, and learn in noisy environments, such as their classrooms. Here, we investigated pitch perception for pure tones as well as resolved and unresolved complex tones with a ...
Jami Fung +3 more
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Integrating Voice Quality Cues in the Pitch Perception of Speech and Non-speech Utterances [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Pitch perception plays a crucial role in speech processing. Since F0 is highly ambiguous and variable in the speech signal, effective pitch-range perception is important in perceiving the intended linguistic pitch targets.
Jianjing Kuang, Mark Liberman
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