Barbara Tillmann, Jackson E Graves, Francesca Talamini, Yohana Lévêque, Lesly Fornoni, Caliani Hoarau, Agathe Pralus, Jérémie Ginzburg, Philippe Albouy, Anne Caclin
Congenital amusia is a neuro-developmental disorder of music perception and production, with the observed deficits contrasting with the sophisticated music processing reported for the general population. Musical deficits within amusia have been hypothesized to arise from altered pitch processing, with impairments in pitch discrimination and, notably, short-term memory. We here review research investigating its behavioral and neural correlates, in particular the impairments at encoding, retention, and recollection of pitch information, as well as how these impairments extend to the processing of pitch cues in speech and emotion...
July 23, 2023: Hearing Research