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After studying the chapter, you should be able to . . .
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Say in what ways speech and music are similar (i.e., both are abstract, symbolic, and of recent origin). |
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Explain the two communicative functions (semantic and emotional) of speech and laughter. |
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Define the term phoneme, and discuss how the vocal tract produces them and how they appear in a spectrogram. |
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Discuss the neural analysis of speech sounds and music, from auditory nerve, through auditory cortex and Wernicke's area, to left and right temporal and frontal lobes. Describe neural plasticity for speech and music. |
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Explain how Eimas and Corbit found psychophysical evidence for speech-feature detectors. |
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Explain how semantic information and emotional information in speech are affected by auditory and visual context. |
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Discuss how temporal information in speech is perceived and misperceived (including prosody, intonation, and gaps between words and utterances). |
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Discuss the origins of music. |
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Specify the characteristics the make a melody (including melodic contour, timing, tempo, timbre). Define pitch constancy. |
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Discuss ordinary, extraordinary, and disordered perception of music, as well as the brain regions involved. |
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Describe research into how emotions are communicated by music. |