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Neuroscience Audiology Frontiers in Psychology

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Sound frequency affects speech emotion perception: results from congenital amusia

Sydney L. Lolli, Ari D. Lewenstein, Julian Basurto, Sean Winnik, Psyche Loui
Frontiers in Psychology Summary & key facts 2015 58 citations

This study tested whether people who are poor at hearing small pitch differences (congenital amusics) are worse at identifying emotions in speech. The researchers used normal speech, low-pass filtered speech (frequencies above ~500 Hz removed), and high-pass filtered speech (frequencies below ~4800 Hz removed). They found that worse pitch perception…

Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation Multisensory perception and integration Neuroscience and Music Perception
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