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·July 21, 2022·6 min read

Detection of Pitch Errors in Well-Known Songs

A song's lyrics have an effect on our ability to process musical pitch, but not necessarily due to the meaningfulness of the words.

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·December 20, 2021·5 min read

Perfecting Pitch Perception

Natural soundscapes have shaped our sense of hearing, optimizing it for the kinds of sounds we encounter most often.

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·September 19, 2019·7 min read

Perception of musical pitch varies across cultures

How people interpret musical notes depends on the type of music they are culturally accustomed to.

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·June 10, 2019·4 min read

Our brains appear uniquely tuned for musical pitch

Study of macaque monkeys reveals speech and music may have shaped the human brain's auditory networks. Researchers found specific areas of the human brain have a stronger preference for pitch than that of primates, raising the possibility certain sounds, which are embedded in music and speech, may have shaped the organization of our brains.

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·May 15, 2019·2 min read

Scientists suss out the secrets of human screams

While screams contain certain shared acoustic factors, such as pitch and roughness, they differ in terms of emotional context.

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·February 20, 2019·4 min read

Mandarin Chinese Could Help Us Understand How Infants Learn English

A new study considers how lexical tones can affect an infant's ability to associated words with objects.

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·June 28, 2018·6 min read

‘Music of Speech’ Linked to Brain Area Unique to Humans

Researchers reveal the area of the brain that controls our voice box, allowing us to alter the pitch of our speech. The insight could pave the way for advancing neuroprosthetics to allow people who can't speak, to express themselves in a naturalistic way.