Intonation processing deficits of emotional words among Mandarin Chinese speakers with congenital amusia: an ERP study

Frontiers in Psychology

Xuejing Lu¹ 

关键词: congenital amusia;    intonation processing;    pitch perception;    conflict processing;    ERP;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00385

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Background: Congenital amusia is a disorder that is known to affect the processing of musical pitch. Although individuals with amusia rarely show language deficits in daily life, a number of findings point to possible impairments in speech prosody that amusic individuals may compensate for by drawing on linguistic information. Using EEG, we investigated (1) whether the processing of speech prosody is impaired in amusia and (2) whether emotional linguistic information can compensate for this impairment.

【 授权许可】

CC BY