Subject: Chinese tone imaging references From: Robert Zatorre <md37(at)MUSICA.MCGILL.CA> Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 10:24:13 -0400--=====================_2013697==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed p.s. Related topic: I believe Bruno Repp (among others) found that pitch in Chinese is processed in areas of the brain associated with language rather than with music. There's an early paper by Van Lancker & Fromkin that, if I remember correctly, shows a right-ear advantage (left-hemisphere advantage) for right-handed native speakers of a tone language (Thai?) discriminating syllables with different pitch patterns, while right-handed native speakers of English show no ear advantage. This is interpreted as suggesting that Thai speakers process spoken pitch preferentially in the hemisphere dominant for language, while English speakers do not (and may process pitch preferentially in the right hemisphere, with music and emotional aspects of speech like "tone of voice," etc.). More recent imaging work by Gandour and his colleagues seems to support this hypothesis. And I'm sure there's been other imaging work on this topic (by Zatorre?) Since somone mentioned my name, I thought I would point you to the references on functional imaging with Chinese speakers, in case any of you are interested. Klein, D., Milner, B.A., Zatorre, R.J., Zhao, V., and Nikelski, E.J. (1999) Cerebral organization in bilinguals: A PET study of Chinese-English verb generation. NeuroReport, 10, 2841-2846. Klein, D., Zatorre, R.J., Milner, B., and Zhao, V. (2001) A Cross-linguistic PET study of tone perception in Mandarin Chinese and English speakers. NeuroImage, 13, 646-653 See also some nice papers by Jack Gandour and his colleagues: Gandour J. Wong D. Hsieh L. Weinzapfel B. Van Lancker D. Hutchins GD. A crosslinguistic PET study of tone perception. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 12(1):207-22, 2000 Gandour J. Wong D. Hutchins G. Pitch processing in the human brain is influenced by language experience. Neuroreport. 9(9):2115-9, 1998 -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Robert J. Zatorre, Ph.D. Montreal Neurological Institute 3801 University St. Montreal, QC Canada H3A 2B4 phone: 1-514-398-8903 fax: 1-514-398-1338 e-mail: md37(at)musica.mcgill.ca web site: www.zlab.mcgill.ca --=====================_2013697==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <html> <font size=3>p.s. Related topic: I believe Bruno Repp (among others) found that pitch <br> in Chinese is processed in areas of the brain associated with language <br> rather than with music.<br> There's an early paper by Van Lancker & Fromkin that, if I remember <br> correctly, shows a right-ear advantage (left-hemisphere advantage) <br> for right-handed native speakers of a tone language (Thai?) <br> discriminating syllables with different pitch patterns, while <br> right-handed native speakers of English show no ear advantage. This <br> is interpreted as suggesting that Thai speakers process spoken pitch <br> preferentially in the hemisphere dominant for language, while English <br> speakers do not (and may process pitch preferentially in the right <br> hemisphere, with music and emotional aspects of speech like "tone of <br> voice," etc.). More recent imaging work by Gandour and his colleagues <br> seems to support this hypothesis. And I'm sure there's been other <br> imaging work on this topic (by Zatorre?)<br> <br> Since somone mentioned my name, I thought I would point you to the references on functional imaging with Chinese speakers, in case any of you are interested.<br> </font> <dl><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3> <dd>Klein, D., Milner, B.A., Zatorre, R.J., Zhao, V., and Nikelski, E.J. (1999) Cerebral organization in bilinguals: A PET study of Chinese-English verb generation. <i>NeuroReport</i>, 10, 2841-2846. </dl>Klein, D., Zatorre, R.J., Milner, B., and Zhao, V. (2001) A Cross-linguistic PET study of tone perception in Mandarin Chinese and English speakers. <i>NeuroImage, </i>13, 646-653<br> <br> See also some nice papers by Jack Gandour and his colleagues:<br> <br> </font>Gandour J. Wong D. Hsieh L. Weinzapfel B. Van Lancker D. Hutchins GD. <font size=3 color="#800080">A crosslinguistic PET study of tone perception. </font><font size=3><i>Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 12(1):207-22, 2000<br> <br> </i>Gandour J. Wong D. Hutchins G. </font><font size=3 color="#800080">Pitch processing in the human brain is influenced by language experience. </font><font size=3><i>Neuroreport. 9(9):2115-9, 1998<br> <br> </font></i><br> <div>-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+</div> <br> <div>Robert J. Zatorre, Ph.D.</div> <div>Montreal Neurological Institute</div> <div>3801 University St.</div> <div>Montreal, QC Canada H3A 2B4</div> <div>phone: 1-514-398-8903</div> <div>fax: 1-514-398-1338</div> <div>e-mail: md37(at)musica.mcgill.ca</div> <div>web site: <a href="http://www.zlab.mcgill.ca/" EUDORA=AUTOURL>www.zlab.mcgill.ca</a></div> </html> --=====================_2013697==_.ALT--