Cognitive deficits in depression arise among others in the auditory domain. [1] Thus, some authors considered impaired auditory processing as a potential marker for depression. [2,3] There is a ...

We used psychophysical tasks to assess two different aspects of pitch change perception 8. The first measured the ability to discriminate actual pitch values over time ('local' task); the second ...

Infants may be more sensitive to non-native speech sounds than previously thought, according to a new study. The findings shed light on the way babies begin to understand language. Infants may be more ...

This paper investigates the phonetic specification of contour tones through a case study of the Mandarin rising tone. The patterns of variation in the realisation of the rising tone as a function of ...

Note-to-note changes in brightness are able to influence the perception of interval size. Changes that are congruent with pitch tend to expand interval size, whereas changes that are incongruent tend ...

Background Impaired auditory performance has been considered as marker for depression. The present study tested whether pitch perception is affected in depression and whether the impairment is ...