Tune Deafness: Processing Melodic Errors Outside of Conscious Awareness as Reflected by Components of the Auditory ERP

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 3; no. 6; p. e2349
• Main Authors: Braun, Allen, McArdle, Joe, Jones, Jennifer, Nechaev, Vladimir, Zalewski, Christopher, Brewer, Carmen, Drayna, Dennis
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 11.06.2008; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Acoustics; Auditory evoked potentials; Awareness; Biology; Blindness; Brain; Communication; Consciousness; Deafness; Electroencephalography; Enterprise resource planning; Event-related potentials; Evoked potentials; Evoked Potentials, Auditory; Frequency; Genotype & phenotype; Hearing loss; Heritability; Humans; Information processing; Language Development Disorders - physiopathology; Latency; Melody; Mismatch negativity; Molecular modelling; Music; Neurological Disorders; Neuroscience/Behavioral Neuroscience; Neuroscience/Cognitive Neuroscience; Neuroscience/Experimental Psychology; Neuroscience/Psychology; Otolaryngology; Patients; Physiology; Visual perception; United States > US; Maryland

Tune deafness (TD) is a central auditory processing disorder characterized by the inability to discriminate pitch, reproduce melodies or to recognize deviations in melodic structure, in spite of normal hearing. The cause of the disorder is unknown. To identify a pathophysiological marker, we ascerta...