Congenital Amusia (or Tone-Deafness) Interferes with Pitch Processing in Tone Languages.

Front Psychol · 2011 · PMC3119887 · PMID 21734894

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marginally significantp < 0.08so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

In amusics, the correlation with the interval test was marginally significant, r (17) = 0.41, p < 0.08, in agreement with the findings for the Mandarin material in Experiment 1.

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failed to reach significancep = 0.09so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

In addition, overall performance tended to be better for the musical material than the verbal material, even though the effect of material failed to reach significance, F (1,25) = 3.21, p = 0.09, MSE = 0.004.

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