Psyche Loui|Kenneth Kroog|Jennifer Zuk|Ellen Winner|Gottfried Schlaug
Relating Pitch Awareness to Phonemic Awareness in Children: Implications for Tone-Deafness and Dyslexia
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center|Harvard University|Boston College|Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center|Harvard University|Boston College|Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center|Harvard University
language music complex cognitive neural functions rely awareness ones sound productions information awareness vocal pitch relation phonemic awareness crucial learning read important understanding relationship tonedeafness developmental language disorders dyslexia show phonemic awareness skills positively correlated pitch perceptionproduction skills children children ages seven nine tested pitch perception production phonemic awareness iq results showed significant positive correlation pitch perceptionproduction phonemic awareness suggesting relationship musical linguistic sound processing intimately linked awareness level pitch phonemes since tonedeafness pitchrelated impairment dyslexia deficit phonemic awareness suggest dyslexia tonedeafness may shared andor common neural basis