A Mozart is not a Pavarotti: singers outperform instrumentalists on foreign accent imitation

Recent findings have shown that people with higher musical aptitude were also better in oral language imitation tasks. However, whether singing capacity and instrument playing contribute differently to the imitation of speech has been ignored so far. Research has just recently started to understand...

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Main Authors: Markus eChristiner, Susanne Maria Reiterer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00482/full