Tone perception – NeuRA Library https://library.neura.edu.au NeuRA Evidence Libraries Mon, 21 Mar 2022 23:07:42 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8 https://library.neura.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/10/cropped-Library-Logo_favicon-32x32.jpg Tone perception – NeuRA Library https://library.neura.edu.au 32 32 Tone perception https://library.neura.edu.au/schizophrenia/signs-and-symptoms/cognition/tone-perception/ Mon, 26 Aug 2019 04:00:20 +0000 https://library.neura.edu.au/?p=16206 What is tone perception in schizophrenia? Low-level sensory functioning may be impaired in people with schizophrenia and may contribute to higher-order cognitive and social impairments. Tone perception involves pitch discrimination, which can be assessed using the tone-matching task. During this task, participants are presented pairs of non-verbal tones that are either identical or differ in frequency by several specified amounts. Participants respond by nominating ‘same’ or ‘different’ and accuracy is scored. What is the evidence for tone perception? Moderate to high quality evidence finds a large effect of poorer tone matching ability in people with schizophrenia. March 2022 Image: ©Grandeduc-...

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Low-level sensory functioning may be impaired in people with schizophrenia and may contribute to higher-order cognitive and social impairments. Tone perception involves pitch discrimination, which can be assessed using the tone-matching task. During this task, participants are presented pairs of non-verbal tones that are either identical or differ in frequency by several specified amounts. Participants respond by nominating ‘same’ or ‘different’ and accuracy is scored.

What is the evidence for tone perception?

Moderate to high quality evidence finds a large effect of poorer tone matching ability in people with schizophrenia.

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