Amusics Can Imitate What They Cannot Discriminate

Autor/inn/en	Hutchins, Sean; Peretz, Isabelle
Titel	Amusics Can Imitate What They Cannot Discriminate
Quelle	In: Brain and Language, 123 (2012) 3, S.234-239 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0093-934X
DOI	10.1016/j.bandl.2012.09.011
Schlagwörter	Imitation; Comparative Analysis; Auditory Discrimination; Speech Communication; Brain; Music; Intonation; Sentences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gehirn; Musik; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse
Abstract	A longstanding issue in psychology is the relationship between how we perceive the world and how we act upon it. Pitch deafness provides an interesting opportunity to test for the independence of perception and production abilities in the speech domain. We tested eight amusics and eight matched controls for their ability to perceive pitch shifts in sentences and to imitate those same sentences. Congenital amusics were impaired in their ability to discriminate, but not to imitate different intonations in speech. These findings support the idea that, when we hear a vocally-imitatable sound, our brains encode it in two distinct ways- an abstract code, which allows us to identify it and compare it to other sounds, and a vocal-motor code, which allows us to imitate it. (Contains 1 table and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10