Auditory cortex and beyond: Deficits in congenital amusia

B Tillmann, JE Graves, F Talamini, Y Lévêque… - Hearing Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Congenital amusia is a neuro-developmental disorder of music perception and production,
with the observed deficits contrasting with the sophisticated music processing reported for …

Specialized neural dynamics for verbal and tonal memory: fMRI evidence in congenital amusia

P Albouy, I Peretz, P Bermudez, RJ Zatorre… - Human brain …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Behavioral and neuropsychological studies have suggested that tonal and verbal short‐term
memory are supported by specialized neural networks. To date however, neuroimaging …

The role of cochlear place coding in the perception of frequency modulation

KL Whiteford, HA Kreft, AJ Oxenham - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Natural sounds convey information via frequency and amplitude modulations (FM and AM).
Humans are acutely sensitive to the slow rates of FM that are crucial for speech and music …

Emotional prosody in congenital amusia: Impaired and spared processes

A Pralus, L Fornoni, R Bouet, M Gomot, A Bhatara… - Neuropsychologia, 2019 - Elsevier
Congenital amusia is a lifelong deficit of music processing, in particular of pitch processing.
Most research investigating this neurodevelopmental disorder has focused on music …

Short-and long-term memory for pitch and non-pitch contours: Insights from congenital amusia

JE Graves, A Pralus, L Fornoni, AJ Oxenham… - Brain and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Congenital amusia is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by deficits in music
perception, including discriminating and remembering melodies and melodic contours. As …

Sensitivity to frequency modulation is limited centrally

KL Whiteford, AJ Oxenham - Journal of Neuroscience, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
Modulations in both amplitude and frequency are prevalent in natural sounds and are critical
in defining their properties. Humans are exquisitely sensitive to frequency modulation (FM) …

Revisiting the neural basis of acquired amusia: lesion patterns and structural changes underlying amusia recovery

AJ Sihvonen, P Ripollés… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Although, acquired amusia is a common deficit following stroke, relatively little is still known
about its precise neural basis, let alone to its recovery. Recently, we performed a voxel …

Learning for pitch and melody discrimination in congenital amusia

KL Whiteford, AJ Oxenham - Cortex, 2018 - Elsevier
Congenital amusia is currently thought to be a life-long neurogenetic disorder in music
perception, impervious to training in pitch or melody discrimination. This study provides an …

Pleasantness makes a good time: musical consonance shapes interpersonal synchronization in dyadic joint action

G Lazzari, LM Sacheli, CE Benoit, C Lega… - Frontiers in Human …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Music making is a process by which humans across cultures come together to
create patterns of sounds that are aesthetically pleasing. What remains unclear is how this …

Individuals with congenital amusia do not show context-dependent perception of tonal categories

F Liu, Y Yin, AHD Chan, V Yip, PCM Wong - Brain and Language, 2021 - Elsevier
Perceptual adaptation is an active cognitive process where listeners re-analyse speech
categories based on new contexts/situations/talkers. It involves top-down influences from …