Impaired categorical perception of lexical tones in Mandarin-speaking congenital amusics

	Impaired categorical perception of lexical tones in Mandarin-speaking congenital amusics
	Jiang, Cunmei 1,2; Hamm, Jeff P.3; Lim, Vanessa K.3; Kirk, Ian J.3; Yang, Yufang1
刊名	MEMORY & COGNITION
	2012-10-01
卷号	40 期号:7 页码:1109-1121
关键词	Congenital amusia Mandarin tone Categorical perception Identification Pitch discrimination
ISSN号	0090-502X
通讯作者	Yang, YF (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Jia 4,Datun Rd, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China.
产权排序	2
英文摘要	The degree to which cognitive resources are shared in the processing of musical pitch and lexical tones remains uncertain. Testing Mandarin amusics on their categorical perception of Mandarin lexical tones may provide insight into this issue. In the present study, a group of 15 amusic Mandarin speakers identified and discriminated Mandarin tones presented as continua in separate blocks. The tonal continua employed were from a high-level tone to a mid-rising tone and from a high-level tone to a high-falling tone. The two tonal continua were made in the contexts of natural speech and of nonlinguistic analogues. In contrast to the controls, the participants with amusia showed no improvement for discrimination pairs that crossed the classification boundary for either speech or nonlinguistic analogues, indicating a lack of categorical perception. The lack of categorical perception of Mandarin tones in the amusic group shows that the pitch deficits in amusics may be domain-general, and this suggests that the processing of musical pitch and lexical tones may share certain cognitive resources and/or processes (Patel 2003, 2008, 2012).
学科主题	Cognitive psychology
收录类别	SCI
原文出处	http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/745/art%253A10.3758%252Fs13421-012-0208-2.pdf?auth66=1425351991_c81d4126d06750b9819e1a8322e7ec94&ext=.pdf
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000309229700010
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/12851]
专题	心理研究所_认知与发展心理学研究室
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Shanghai Normal Univ, Mus Coll, Shanghai 200234, Peoples R China 3.Univ Auckland, Dept Psychol, Auckland 1142, New Zealand
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jiang, Cunmei,Hamm, Jeff P.,Lim, Vanessa K.,et al. Impaired categorical perception of lexical tones in Mandarin-speaking congenital amusics[J]. MEMORY & COGNITION,2012,40(7):1109-1121.
APA	Jiang, Cunmei,Hamm, Jeff P.,Lim, Vanessa K.,Kirk, Ian J.,&Yang, Yufang.(2012).Impaired categorical perception of lexical tones in Mandarin-speaking congenital amusics.MEMORY & COGNITION,40(7),1109-1121.
MLA	Jiang, Cunmei,et al."Impaired categorical perception of lexical tones in Mandarin-speaking congenital amusics".MEMORY & COGNITION 40.7(2012):1109-1121.