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Direct linkPatel, Aniruddh D.; Foxton, Jessica M.; Griffiths, Timothy D. – Brain and Cognition, 2005
Musically tone-deaf individuals have psychophysical deficits in detecting pitch changes, yet their discrimination of intonation contours in speech appears to be normal. One hypothesis for this dissociation is that intonation contours use coarse pitch contrasts which exceed the pitch-change detection thresholds of tone-deaf individuals (Peretz &…
Descriptors: Intonation, Hearing Impairments, Speech Communication, Music
