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Desbernats A, Martin E, Tallet J. Which factors modulate spontaneous motor tempo? A systematic review of the literature. Front Psychol 2023; 14:1161052. [PMID: 37920737 PMCID: PMC10619865 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1161052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2023] [Accepted: 08/02/2023] [Indexed: 11/04/2023] Open
Abstract
Intentionally or not, humans produce rhythmic behaviors (e.g., walking, speaking, and clapping). In 1974, Paul Fraisse defined rhythmic behavior as a periodic movement that obeys a temporal program specific to the subject and that depends less on the conditions of the action (p. 47). Among spontaneous rhythms, the spontaneous motor tempo (SMT) corresponds to the tempo at which someone produces movements in the absence of external stimuli, at the most regular, natural, and pleasant rhythm for him/her. However, intra- and inter-individual differences exist in the SMT values. Even if several factors have been suggested to influence the SMT (e.g., the age of participants), we do not yet know which factors actually modulate the value of the SMT. In this context, the objectives of the present systematic review are (1) to characterize the range of SMT values found in the literature in healthy human adults and (2) to identify all the factors modulating the SMT values in humans. Our results highlight that (1) the reference value of SMT is far from being a common value of 600 ms in healthy human adults, but a range of SMT values exists, and (2) many factors modulate the SMT values. We discuss our results in terms of intrinsic factors (in relation to personal characteristics) and extrinsic factors (in relation to environmental characteristics). Recommendations are proposed to assess the SMT in future research and in rehabilitative, educative, and sport interventions involving rhythmic behaviors.
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- Anaïs Desbernats
- ToNIC, Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Université de Toulouse, Inserm, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- ToNIC, Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Université de Toulouse, Inserm, UPS, Toulouse, France
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Holmes E, Utoomprurkporn N, Hoskote C, Warren JD, Bamiou DE, Griffiths TD. Simultaneous auditory agnosia: Systematic description of a new type of auditory segregation deficit following a right hemisphere lesion. Cortex 2021; 135:92-107. [PMID: 33360763 PMCID: PMC7856551 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.10.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2020] [Revised: 09/17/2020] [Accepted: 10/22/2020] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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We investigated auditory processing in a young patient who experienced a single embolus causing an infarct in the right middle cerebral artery territory. This led to damage to auditory cortex including planum temporale that spared medial Heschl's gyrus, and included damage to the posterior insula and inferior parietal lobule. She reported chronic difficulties with segregating speech from noise and segregating elements of music. Clinical tests showed no evidence for abnormal cochlear function. Follow-up tests confirmed difficulties with auditory segregation in her left ear that spanned multiple domains, including words-in-noise and music streaming. Testing with a stochastic figure-ground task-a way of estimating generic acoustic foreground and background segregation-demonstrated that this was also abnormal. This is the first demonstration of an acquired deficit in the segregation of complex acoustic patterns due to cortical damage, which we argue is a causal explanation for the symptomatic deficits in the segregation of speech and music. These symptoms are analogous to the visual symptom of simultaneous agnosia. Consistent with functional imaging studies on normal listeners, the work implicates non-primary auditory cortex. Further, the work demonstrates a (partial) lateralisation of the necessary anatomical substrate for segregation that has not been previously highlighted.
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- Emma Holmes
- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL, London, UK.
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- UCL Ear Institute, UCL, London, UK; NIHR University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UCL, London, UK; Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Lysholm Department of Neuroradiology, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UCL, London, UK
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- UCL Ear Institute, UCL, London, UK; NIHR University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UCL, London, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL, London, UK; Biosciences Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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Sihvonen AJ, Särkämö T, Rodríguez-Fornells A, Ripollés P, Münte TF, Soinila S. Neural architectures of music - Insights from acquired amusia. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2019; 107:104-114. [PMID: 31479663 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.08.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2019] [Revised: 08/27/2019] [Accepted: 08/29/2019] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The ability to perceive and produce music is a quintessential element of human life, present in all known cultures. Modern functional neuroimaging has revealed that music listening activates a large-scale bilateral network of cortical and subcortical regions in the healthy brain. Even the most accurate structural studies do not reveal which brain areas are critical and causally linked to music processing. Such questions may be answered by analysing the effects of focal brain lesions in patients´ ability to perceive music. In this sense, acquired amusia after stroke provides a unique opportunity to investigate the neural architectures crucial for normal music processing. Based on the first large-scale longitudinal studies on stroke-induced amusia using modern multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques, such as advanced lesion-symptom mapping, grey and white matter morphometry, tractography and functional connectivity, we discuss neural structures critical for music processing, consider music processing in light of the dual-stream model in the right hemisphere, and propose a neural model for acquired amusia.
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- Aleksi J Sihvonen
- Department of Neurosciences, University of Helsinki, Finland; Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, University of Helsinki, Finland.
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Cognition, University of Barcelona, Cognition & Brain Plasticity Unit, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Institució Catalana de recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, New York University and Music and Audio Research Laboratory, New York University, USA
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- Department of Neurology and Institute of Psychology II, University of Lübeck, Germany
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- Division of Clinical Neurosciences, Turku University Hospital, Department of Neurology, University of Turku, Finland
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Muhammed L, Hardy CJD, Russell LL, Marshall CR, Clark CN, Bond RL, Warrington EK, Warren JD. Agnosia for bird calls. Neuropsychologia 2018; 113:61-67. [PMID: 29572063 PMCID: PMC5946901 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.03.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2017] [Revised: 01/18/2018] [Accepted: 03/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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The cognitive organisation of nonverbal auditory knowledge remains poorly defined. Deficits of environmental sound as well as word and visual object knowledge are well-recognised in semantic dementia. However, it is unclear how auditory cognition breaks down in this disorder and how this relates to deficits in other knowledge modalities. We had the opportunity to study a patient with a typical syndrome of semantic dementia who had extensive premorbid knowledge of birds, allowing us to assess the impact of the disease on the processing of auditory in relation to visual and verbal attributes of this specific knowledge category. We designed a novel neuropsychological test to probe knowledge of particular avian characteristics (size, behaviour [migratory or nonmigratory], habitat [whether or not primarily water-dwelling]) in the nonverbal auditory, visual and verbal modalities, based on a uniform two-alternative-forced-choice procedure. The patient's performance was compared to healthy older individuals of similar birding experience. We further compared his performance on this test of bird knowledge with his knowledge of familiar human voices and faces. Relative to healthy birder controls, the patient showed marked deficits of bird call and bird name knowledge but relatively preserved knowledge of avian visual attributes and retained knowledge of human voices and faces. In both the auditory and visual modalities, his knowledge of the avian characteristics of size and behaviour was intact whereas his knowledge of the associated characteristic of habitat was deficient. This case provides further evidence that nonverbal auditory knowledge has a fractionated organisation that can be differentially targeted in semantic dementia. The cognitive organisation of auditory semantics is poorly understood. We assessed multimodal avian knowledge in a birder with semantic dementia. The patient had auditory (but not visual) agnosia for birds versus healthy birders. Auditory knowledge of avian attributes and human voices were differentially affected. This case illuminates the fractionated organisation of nonverbal auditory knowledge.
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- Louwai Muhammed
- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
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Golden HL, Clark CN, Nicholas JM, Cohen MH, Slattery CF, Paterson RW, Foulkes AJM, Schott JM, Mummery CJ, Crutch SJ, Warren JD. Music Perception in Dementia. J Alzheimers Dis 2017; 55:933-949. [PMID: 27802226 PMCID: PMC5260961 DOI: 10.3233/jad-160359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Despite much recent interest in music and dementia, music perception has not been widely studied across dementia syndromes using an information processing approach. Here we addressed this issue in a cohort of 30 patients representing major dementia syndromes of typical Alzheimer's disease (AD, n = 16), logopenic aphasia (LPA, an Alzheimer variant syndrome; n = 5), and progressive nonfluent aphasia (PNFA; n = 9) in relation to 19 healthy age-matched individuals. We designed a novel neuropsychological battery to assess perception of musical patterns in the dimensions of pitch and temporal information (requiring detection of notes that deviated from the established pattern based on local or global sequence features) and musical scene analysis (requiring detection of a familiar tune within polyphonic harmony). Performance on these tests was referenced to generic auditory (timbral) deviance detection and recognition of familiar tunes and adjusted for general auditory working memory performance. Relative to healthy controls, patients with AD and LPA had group-level deficits of global pitch (melody contour) processing while patients with PNFA as a group had deficits of local (interval) as well as global pitch processing. There was substantial individual variation within syndromic groups. Taking working memory performance into account, no specific deficits of musical temporal processing, timbre processing, musical scene analysis, or tune recognition were identified. The findings suggest that particular aspects of music perception such as pitch pattern analysis may open a window on the processing of information streams in major dementia syndromes. The potential selectivity of musical deficits for particular dementia syndromes and particular dimensions of processing warrants further systematic investigation.
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- Hannah L Golden
- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Rosemann S, Brunner F, Kastrup A, Fahle M. Musical, visual and cognitive deficits after middle cerebral artery infarction. eNeurologicalSci 2016; 6:25-32. [PMID: 29260010 PMCID: PMC5721573 DOI: 10.1016/j.ensci.2016.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2016] [Revised: 07/28/2016] [Accepted: 11/03/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The perception of music can be impaired after a stroke. This dysfunction is called amusia and amusia patients often also show deficits in visual abilities, language, memory, learning, and attention. The current study investigated whether deficits in music perception are selective for musical input or generalize to other perceptual abilities. Additionally, we tested the hypothesis that deficits in working memory or attention account for impairments in music perception. Twenty stroke patients with small infarctions in the supply area of the middle cerebral artery were investigated with tests for music and visual perception, categorization, neglect, working memory and attention. Two amusia patients with selective deficits in music perception and pronounced lesions were identified. Working memory and attention deficits were highly correlated across the patient group but no correlation with musical abilities was obtained. Lesion analysis revealed that lesions in small areas of the putamen and globus pallidus were connected to a rhythm perception deficit. We conclude that neither a general perceptual deficit nor a minor domain general deficit can account for impairments in the music perception task. But we find support for the modular organization of the music perception network with brain areas specialized for musical functions as musical deficits were not correlated to any other impairment.
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- Department of Human-Neurobiology, University of Bremen, Germany
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Hardy CJD, Marshall CR, Golden HL, Clark CN, Mummery CJ, Griffiths TD, Bamiou DE, Warren JD. Hearing and dementia. J Neurol 2016; 263:2339-2354. [PMID: 27372450 PMCID: PMC5065893 DOI: 10.1007/s00415-016-8208-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2016] [Revised: 06/13/2016] [Accepted: 06/14/2016] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Hearing deficits associated with cognitive impairment have attracted much recent interest, motivated by emerging evidence that impaired hearing is a risk factor for cognitive decline. However, dementia and hearing impairment present immense challenges in their own right, and their intersection in the auditory brain remains poorly understood and difficult to assess. Here, we outline a clinically oriented, symptom-based approach to the assessment of hearing in dementias, informed by recent progress in the clinical auditory neuroscience of these diseases. We consider the significance and interpretation of hearing loss and symptoms that point to a disorder of auditory cognition in patients with dementia. We identify key auditory characteristics of some important dementias and conclude with a bedside approach to assessing and managing auditory dysfunction in dementia.
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- Chris J D Hardy
- Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, UK
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- Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, UK
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- Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, UK
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- Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, UK
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- Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, UK
- Cognitive Disorders Clinic for the Deaf, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, UK
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- Auditory Group, Institute of Neuroscience, The Medical School, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
- Central Auditory Disorders Clinic, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, UK
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- Department of Neuro-otology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, UK
- UCL Ear Institute, University College London, London, UK
- Central Auditory Disorders Clinic, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, UK
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- Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, UK.
- Central Auditory Disorders Clinic, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, UK.
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Impaired short-term memory for pitch in congenital amusia. Brain Res 2016; 1640:251-63. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2015.10.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2015] [Revised: 10/11/2015] [Accepted: 10/18/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Albouy P, Cousineau M, Caclin A, Tillmann B, Peretz I. Impaired encoding of rapid pitch information underlies perception and memory deficits in congenital amusia. Sci Rep 2016; 6:18861. [PMID: 26732511 PMCID: PMC4702148 DOI: 10.1038/srep18861] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2015] [Accepted: 11/27/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Recent theories suggest that the basis of neurodevelopmental auditory disorders such as dyslexia or specific language impairment might be a low-level sensory dysfunction. In the present study we test this hypothesis in congenital amusia, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by severe deficits in the processing of pitch-based material. We manipulated the temporal characteristics of auditory stimuli and investigated the influence of the time given to encode pitch information on participants' performance in discrimination and short-term memory. Our results show that amusics' performance in such tasks scales with the duration available to encode acoustic information. This suggests that in auditory neuro-developmental disorders, abnormalities in early steps of the auditory processing can underlie the high-level deficits (here musical disabilities). Observing that the slowing down of temporal dynamics improves amusics' pitch abilities allows considering this approach as a potential tool for remediation in developmental auditory disorders.
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- Philippe Albouy
- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Auditory Cognition and Psychoacoustics Team & Brain Dynamics and Cognition Team, CRNL, CNRS UMR5292, INSERM U1028, Lyon, F-69000, France
- Université Lyon 1, Lyon, F-69000, France
- International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research (BRAMS), Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada H3C 3J7
- Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC Canada H3A 2B4
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- International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research (BRAMS), Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada H3C 3J7
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- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Auditory Cognition and Psychoacoustics Team & Brain Dynamics and Cognition Team, CRNL, CNRS UMR5292, INSERM U1028, Lyon, F-69000, France
- Université Lyon 1, Lyon, F-69000, France
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- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Auditory Cognition and Psychoacoustics Team & Brain Dynamics and Cognition Team, CRNL, CNRS UMR5292, INSERM U1028, Lyon, F-69000, France
- Université Lyon 1, Lyon, F-69000, France
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- International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research (BRAMS), Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada H3C 3J7
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