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 ju...

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Main Authors: Sydney eLolli, Ari D Lewenstein, Julian eBasurto, Sean eWinnik, Psyche eLoui
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01340/full