Relating Pitch Awareness to Phonemic Awareness in Children: Implications for Tone-Deafness and Dyslexia

Language and music are complex cognitive and neural functions that rely on awareness of one’s own sound productions. Information on the awareness of vocal pitch, and its relation to phonemic awareness which is crucial for learning to read, will be important for understanding the relationship between...

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Main Authors: Psyche eLoui, Kenneth eKroog, Jennifer eZuk, Ellen eWinner, Gottfried eSchlaug
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00111/full