SONG Bei1,2，HOU Jiancheng3，ZHOU Jiaxian4，ZHU Haidong5
1.Department of Musicology, Harbin Conservatory of Music, Harbin 150028, Heilongjiang Province, China; 2. School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China; 3.Department of Radiology,School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison 53705, USA; 4.Institude of Brain Science and Eduational Innovation,East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062,China; 5.Teaching College, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832003, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China
Abstract：Pitch is the element that composes musical tone and linguist intonation. The individuals with amusia not only have the pitch disorder, but also have the intonation disorder in tone and non-tone languages to a certain extent. Meanwhile, the factors such as the category and presentation of language can also affect intonation processing. The cognitive neuroscience research on intonation in amusia is helpful to provide the evidence to the “resource-sharing framework” that is between music and language, and possibly also provide clinical reference to aphsia and amusia.
