...Ariadne Loutrari; Cunmei Jiang; Fang Liu Congenital amusia is a neurogenetic disorder of pitch perception that may also compromise pitch production. Despite amusics’ long documented difficulties with pitch, previous evidence suggests that familiar music may have an implicit facilitative effect...

...Fang Liu; Cunmei Jiang; Tom Francart; Alice H. D. Chan; Patrick C. M. Wong Congenital amusia is a lifelong disorder of musical processing for which no effective treatments have been found. The present study aimed to treat amusics’ impairments in pitch direction identification through auditory...

...Cunmei Jiang; Fang Liu; William Forde Thompson We examined explicit processing of musical syntax and tonality in a group of Han Chinese Mandarin speakers with congenital amusia, and the extent to which pitch discrimination impairments were associated with syntax and tonality processing...

...Diana Omigie; Daniel Müllensiefen; Lauren Stewart individuals with congenital amusia have difficulty recognizing and discriminating melodies. While much research has focused on the perceptual deficits of congenital amusics, the extent to which these deficits have an impact on the ability to engage...

... language. Received September 7, 2010, accepted February 6, 2011. Key words: congenital amusia, fine-grained pitch discrimination, deficit, improvement, tonal experience pitch perception plays an important role in humans musical experience and is a critical factor in the appreciation of tonal music...

... and genetic underpinnings. Such a musical disorder is now termed "congenital amusia," an umbrella term for lifelong musical disabilities that cannot be attributed to mental retardation, deafness, or lack of exposure. Congenital amusia is a condition that is estimated to affect 4% of the general population...

... deafness congenital amusia Intonation Perception in Tone Deafness 357 SPEECH INTONATION PERCEPTION DEFICITS IN MUSICAL TONE DEAFNESS (CONGENITAL AMUSIA) ANIRUDDH D. PATEL The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, California MEREDITH WONG The Neurosciences Institute and University of California, San Diego...

...). Potential reasons for this dissociation are discussed. Uses and Functions of Music in Congenital Amusia 345 USES AND FUNCTIONS OF MUSIC IN CONGENITAL AMUSIA CLAIRE MCDONALD & LAUREN STEWART Goldsmiths, University of London, London, United Kingdom THE GOAL OF THIS STUDY WAS TO ASCERTAIN whether deficits...