Native experience with a tone language enhances pitch discrimination and the timing of neural responses to pitch change

Native tone language experience has been linked with alterations in the production and perception of pitch in language, as well as with the brain response to linguistic and non-linguistic tones. Here we use two experiments to address whether these changes apply to the discrimination of simple pitch...

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Main Authors: Ryan J Giuliano, Peter Q Pfordresher, Emily M Stanley, Shalini eNarayana, Nicole Y. Y. Wicha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00146/full