Pitch Perception - Physiology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Neural correlates of consonance, dissonance, and the hierarchy of musical pitch in the human brainstem.

19 Oct 2009 Consonant and dissonant pitch relationships in music provide the foundation of melody and harmony, the building blocks of Western tonal music. We hypothesized that phase-locked neural activity within the brainstem may preserve information relevant ... Read more...

Event-related potential evidence of processing lexical pitch-accent in auditory Japanese sentences.

21 Sep 2009 Neural mechanisms that underlie the processing of lexical pitch-accent in auditory Japanese were investigated by using event-related potentials. Native speakers of Japanese listened to two types of short sentences, both consisting of a noun and a ... Read more...

Tone deafness: a new disconnection syndrome?

17 Aug 2009 Communicating with one's environment requires efficient neural interaction between action and perception. Neural substrates of sound perception and production are connected by the arcuate fasciculus (AF). Although AF is known to be involved in ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Pitch Perception - Physiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Neural correlates of consonance, dissonance, and the hierarchy of musical pitch in the human brainstem. 19 Oct 2009
• Event-related potential evidence of processing lexical pitch-accent in auditory Japanese sentences. 21 Sep 2009
• Tone deafness: a new disconnection syndrome? 17 Aug 2009
• Preattentive cortical-evoked responses to pure tones, harmonic tones, and speech: influence of music training. 30 Jul 2009
• Experience-induced malleability in neural encoding of pitch, timbre, and timing. 29 Jun 2009
• Melodic contour identification and music perception by cochlear implant users. 29 Jun 2009
• Spatial properties of perceived pitch: influence on reaching movements. 29 Jun 2009
• Tonal language processing in congenital amusia. 29 Jun 2009
• Integrated preattentive processing of vowel and pitch: a mismatch negativity study. 29 Jun 2009
• Reestablishing speech understanding through musical ear training after cochlear implantation: a study of the potential cortical plasticity in the brain. 29 Jun 2009
• Neural representation of transposed melody in infants at 6 months of age. 29 Jun 2009
• Auditory pitch imagery and its relationship to musical synchronization. 29 Jun 2009
• Load-dependent brain activity related to acoustic short-term memory for pitch: magnetoencephalography and fMRI. 29 Jun 2009
• Impaired memory for pitch in congenital amusia. 29 Jun 2009
• Memory for tonal pitches: a music-length effect hypothesis. 29 Jun 2009
• How the melody facilitates the message and vice versa in infant learning and memory. 29 Jun 2009
• Absolute pitch in children prior to the beginning of musical training. 29 Jun 2009
• Automatic brain responses to pitch changes in congenital amusia. 29 Jun 2009
• Musicians--same or different? 29 Jun 2009
• The pitch of vibrato tones: a model based on instantaneous frequency decomposition. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Pitch Perception'

Definition: A dimension of auditory sensation varying with cycles per second of the sound stimulus.

Descriptor UI: D010898

Alternative terms: Pitch Perception; Perception, Pitch; Perceptions, Pitch; Pitch Perceptions;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.463.593.071.700;

History Note: 80

Technical Notes: do not confuse with PITCH DISCRIMINATION