Singing: a selective deficit in the retrieval of musical intervals

Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2003 Nov:999:189-92. doi: 10.1196/annals.1284.027.

Abstract

A case of dissociation between discrimination and retrieval of musical information in a patient with a lesion of the right hemisphere is described. This patient has lost the ability to correctly retrieve a musical interval when required to sing. This occurs in the presence of unimpaired interval discrimination and correct retrieval of temporal patterns and melodic contour (direction).

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Auditory Perception*
  • Discrimination, Psychological
  • Functional Laterality
  • Humans
  • Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery / pathology
  • Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery / physiopathology*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Music*
  • Temporal Lobe / pathology
  • Temporal Lobe / physiopathology
  • Voice*