Infant pitch perception: Evidence for responding to pitch categories and the missing fundamental

Marsha G. Clarkson; Rachel K. Clifton

doi:10.1121/1.391994

Infant pitch perception: Evidence for responding to pitch categories and the missing fundamental

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America ◽

10.1121/1.391994 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 77 (4) ◽

pp. 1521-1528 ◽

Cited By ~ 41

Author(s):

Marsha G. Clarkson ◽

Rachel K. Clifton

Keyword(s):

Pitch Perception ◽

Missing Fundamental

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Impairment of the Missing Fundamental Phenomenon in Individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease: A Neuropsychological and Voxel-Based Morphometric Study

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra ◽

10.1159/000486331 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 23-32 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Makiko Abe ◽

Ken-ichi Tabei ◽

Masayuki Satoh ◽

Mari Fukuda ◽

Hironobu Daikuhara ◽

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Keyword(s):

Alzheimer’S Disease ◽

Alzheimer's Disease ◽

Inferior Frontal Gyrus ◽

Gray Matter Volume ◽

Brain Regions ◽

Pitch Perception ◽

Magnetic Resonance Images ◽

Morphometric Study ◽

Fundamental Phenomenon ◽

Missing Fundamental

Background/Aims: The missing fundamental phenomenon (MFP) is a universal pitch perception illusion that occurs in animals and humans. In this study, we aimed to determine whether the MFP is impaired in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) using an auditory pitch perception experiment. We further examined anatomical correlates of the MFP in patients with AD by measuring gray matter volume (GMV) on magnetic resonance images via voxel-based morphometric analysis. Methods: We prospectively enrolled 29 patients with AD and 20 healthy older adults. Auditory stimuli included 12 melodies of Japanese nursery songs that were expected to be familiar to participants. We constructed the melodies using pure and missing fundamental tones (MFTs). Results: Patients with AD exhibited significantly poorer performance on the MFT task than healthy controls. MFT scores were positively correlated with GMV in the bilateral insula and temporal poles, left inferior frontal gyrus, right entorhinal cortex, and right cerebellum. Conclusions: These results suggest that impairments in the MFP represent a manifestation of the degeneration of auditory-related brain regions in AD. Further studies are required to more fully elucidate the neural mechanisms underlying auditory impairments in patients with AD and related dementia disorders.

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Infant pitch perception: Missing fundamental melody discrimination

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America ◽

10.1121/1.4973412 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 141 (1) ◽

pp. 65-72 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Bonnie K. Lau ◽

Kaylah Lalonde ◽

Monika-Maria Oster ◽

Lynne A. Werner

Keyword(s):

Pitch Perception ◽

Missing Fundamental

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Age-Related Decline in Emotional Prosody Discrimination

Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie) ◽

10.1027/1618-3169/a000241 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 61 (3) ◽

pp. 215-223 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Rachel L. C. Mitchell ◽

Rachel A. Kingston

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Auditory Perception ◽

Duration Discrimination ◽

Pitch Perception ◽

Sensory Level ◽

Emotional Prosody ◽

Processing Stage ◽

Acoustic Characteristics ◽

Age Related ◽

Level Of Processing

It is now accepted that older adults have difficulty recognizing prosodic emotion cues, but it is not clear at what processing stage this ability breaks down. We manipulated the acoustic characteristics of tones in pitch, amplitude, and duration discrimination tasks to assess whether impaired basic auditory perception coexisted with our previously demonstrated age-related prosodic emotion perception impairment. It was found that pitch perception was particularly impaired in older adults, and that it displayed the strongest correlation with prosodic emotion discrimination. We conclude that an important cause of age-related impairment in prosodic emotion comprehension exists at the fundamental sensory level of processing.

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