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Effect Of Unilateral Temporal-Lobe Excision On Perception And Imagery Of Songs, R.J. Zatorre, Andrea Halpern
Effect Of Unilateral Temporal-Lobe Excision On Perception And Imagery Of Songs, R.J. Zatorre, Andrea Halpern
Andrea Halpern
Auditory imagery for songs was studied in two groups of patients with left or right temporal-lobe excision for control of epilepsy, and a group of matched normal control subjects. Two tasks were used. In the perceptual task, subjects saw the text of a familiar song and simultaneously heard it sung. On each trial they judged if the second of two capitalized lyrics was higher or lower in pitch than the first. The imagery task was identical in all respects except that no song was presented, so that subjects had to generate an auditory image of the song. The results indicated …