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Decoding speech prosody

Do music lessons help

Bibliographic Data

ID15406830
AuthorsW Fletcher Thompson (0000-0002-4256-1338, University of Toronto, corresponding author), E Glenn Schellenberg (0000-0003-3681-6020, University of Toronto), Gabriela Husain (University of Toronto)
Year2004
Volume4
Issue1
Pages46-64
Publication date2004-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEmotion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1528-3542 • E-ISSN: 1931-1516
PublisherAmerican Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1037/1528-3542.4.1.46
PMID15053726
OpenAlexW2126528247
LanguageEN
Citations received47
References cited102

Three experiments revealed that music lessons promote sensitivity to emotions conveyed by speech prosody. After hearing semantically neutral utterances spoken with emotional (i.e., happy, sad, fearful, or angry) prosody, or tone sequences that mimicked the utterances' prosody, participants identified the emotion conveyed. In Experiment 1 (n=20), musically trained adults performed better than untrained adults. In Experiment 2 (n=56), musically trained adults outperformed untrained adults at identifying sadness, fear, or neutral emotion. In Experiment 3 (n=43), 6-year-olds were tested after being randomly assigned to 1 year of keyboard, vocal, drama, or no lessons. The keyboard group performed equivalently to the drama group and better than the no-lessons group at identifying anger or fear

Anger · Audiology · Drama · Emotional prosody · Linguistics · Prosody · Sadness · Speech recognition · Tone (literature · Early Childhood Education and Development · Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation · Neuroscience and Music Perception · Psychology · Social Psychology

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