Effects of culture on musical pitch perception

• Main Authors: Wong, Patrick C. M., Ciocca, Valter, Chan, Alice Hiu Dan, Ha, Louisa Y. Y., Tan, Li-Hai, Peretz, Isabelle
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95275; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/9198
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The strong association between music and speech has been supported by recent research focusing on musicians' superior abilities in second language learning and neural encoding of foreign speech sounds. However, evidence for a double association—the influence of linguistic background on music pi...