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SUBMITTER: Jasmin K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7449693 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jasmin Kyle K Dick Frederic F Stewart Lauren L Tierney Adam Taylor AT
eLife 20200807
Individuals with congenital amusia have a lifelong history of unreliable pitch processing. Accordingly, they downweight pitch cues during speech perception and instead rely on other dimensions such as duration. We investigated the neural basis for this strategy. During fMRI, individuals with amusia (N = 15) and controls (N = 15) read sentences where a comma indicated a grammatical phrase boundary. They then heard two sentences spoken that differed only in pitch and/or duration cues and selected ...[more]