... on their performance. It remains, however, unknown whether vocal imitation of song in amusia is influenced by melody familiarity and the presence of lyrics. To address this issue, thirteen Mandarin speaking amusics and 13 matched controls imitated novel song segments with lyrics and on the syllable /la/. Eleven out...

...Fred Cummins Speech and song have frequently been treated as contrasting categories. We here observe a variety of collective activities in which multiple participants utter the same thing at the same time, a behavior we call joint speech. This simple empirical definition serves to single out...

... responses from observers. Frank A. Russo, Department of Psychology, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5B 2K3, Canada. E-mail: [email protected] 18 1 2012 3 6 2012 © 2013 by The Regents of the University of California 2013 facial mimicry emotion song EMG facial...

...Elizabeth L. Stegemöller; Erika Skoe; Trent Nicol; Catherine M. Warrier; Nina Kraus Studying similarities and differences between speech and song provides an opportunity to examine music's role in human culture. Forty participants divided into groups of musicians and nonmusicians spoke and sang...