Tone Language Speakers and Musicians Share Enhanced Perceptual and Cognitive Abilities for Musical Pitch: Evidence for Bidirectionality between the Domains of Language and Music

Gavin M. Bidelman; Stefanie Hutka; Sylvain Moreno

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0060676

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Tone Language Speakers and Musicians Share Enhanced Perceptual and Cognitive Abilities for Musical Pitch: Evidence for Bidirectionality between the Domains of Language and Music

Gavin M. Bidelman ,

* E-mail: g.bidelman@memphis.edu

Affiliations Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, School of Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America
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Stefanie Hutka,

Affiliations Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Sylvain Moreno

Affiliation Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Tone Language Speakers and Musicians Share Enhanced Perceptual and Cognitive Abilities for Musical Pitch: Evidence for Bidirectionality between the Domains of Language and Music

Gavin M. Bidelman,
Stefanie Hutka,
Sylvain Moreno

Published: April 2, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0060676

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reference correction

Posted by gbidel on 18 May 2013 at 16:06 GMT

References 71 and 72 were incorrect in the original bibliography. The correct citations should be:

[71] Dediu, D., Ladd, D.R. 2007. Linguistic tone is related to the population frequency of the adaptive haplogroups of two brain size genes, ASPM and Microcephalin. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 104, 10944-10949.

[72] Wong PC, Chandrasekaran B, Zheng J (2012) The derived allele of ASPM is associated with lexical tone perception. PloS One 7: e342434.

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Posted by gbidel on 18 May 2013 at 16:06 GMT