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2014-05-15
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Williams syndrome (WS), a genetic neurodevelopmental disorder, has been taken as evidence that music and language constitute separate modules. This research focused on the linguistic component of prosody and aimed to assess whether relationships exist between the pitch processing mechanisms for music and prosody in WS. Children with WS and typically developing individuals were presented with a musical pitch and two prosody discrimination tasks. In the musical pitch discrimination task, participants were required to distinguish whether two musical tones were the same or different. The prosody discrimination tasks evaluated participants’ skills for discriminating pairs of prosodic contours based on pitch or pitch, loudness and length, jointly. In WS, musical pitch discrimination was significantly correlated with performance on the prosody task assessing the discrimination of prosodic contours based on pitch only. Furthermore, musical pitch discrimination skills predicted performance on the prosody task based on pitch, and this relationship was not better explained by chronological age, vocabulary or auditory memory. These results suggest that children with WS process pitch in music and prosody through shared mechanisms. We discuss the implications of these results for theories of cognitive modularity. The implications of these results for intervention programs for individuals with WS are also discussed.
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The registered version of this article, first published in “Brain Sciences, vol. 4, 2014", is available online at the publisher's website: MDPI, https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci4020376
La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en “Brain Sciences, vol. 4, 2014", está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: MDPI, https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci4020376
Financiación: This research was funded by grant AP2003-5098 from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Spanish Government and supported by project PSI2010-21457 “Social and non-social processing in individuals with developmental disorders: Williams syndrome and Autism spectrum disorders” from the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain.
La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en “Brain Sciences, vol. 4, 2014", está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: MDPI, https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci4020376
Financiación: This research was funded by grant AP2003-5098 from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Spanish Government and supported by project PSI2010-21457 “Social and non-social processing in individuals with developmental disorders: Williams syndrome and Autism spectrum disorders” from the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain.
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Williams syndrome, pitch processing, music, prosody, modularity, relationships
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Martínez-Castilla, P., y Sotillo, M. (2014). Pitch Processing in Children with Williams Syndrome: Relationships between music and prosody skills. Brain Sciences, 4, 376-395. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci4020376
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Facultad de Psicología
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Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación