Sound frequency affects speech emotion perception: results from congenital amusia

Congenital amusics, or “tone-deaf” individuals, show difficulty in perceiving and producing small pitch differences. While amusia has marked effects on music perception, its impact on speech perception is less clear. Here we test the hypothesis that individual differences in pitch perception affect...

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Main Authors: Lolli, Sydney L., Lewenstein, Ari D., Basurto, Julian, Winnik, Sean, Loui, Psyche
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4561757/