Abstract：
:Congenital amusia refers to a lifelong disorder of music processing and is linked to pitch-processing deficits. The present study investigated congenital amusics' short-term memory for tones, musical timbres and words. Sequences of five events (tones, timbres or words) were presented in pairs and participants had to indicate whether the sequences were the same or different. The performance of congenital amusics confirmed a memory deficit for tone sequences, but showed normal performance for word sequences. For timbre sequences, amusics' memory performance was impaired in comparison to matched controls. Overall timbre performance was found to be correlated with melodic contour processing (as assessed by the Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia). The present findings show that amusics' deficits extend to non-verbal sound material other than pitch, in this case timbre, while not affecting memory for verbal material. This is in line with previous suggestions about the domain-specificity of congenital amusia.
journal_name
Brain Cognjournal_title
Brain and cognitionauthors
Tillmann B,Schulze K,Foxton JMdoi
10.1016/j.bandc.2009.08.003subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2009-12-01 00:00:00pages
259-64issue
3eissn
0278-2626issn
1090-2147pii
S0278-2626(09)00156-0journal_volume
71pub_type
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