Medias
Emotional Clips
These musical excerpts can be used for research with ackowledgements of the copyright, Bernard Bouchard, 1998.
MBEA Stimuli
Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia
Stimuli examples
Examples of the stimuli used in Experiments 1 to 5
Kolinsky, R., Lidji, P., Peretz, I., Besson, M. & Morais, J. (2009) Processing interactions between phonology and melody: Vowels sing but consonants speak. Cognition , vol. 112, pp. 1-20
Let The People Sing
Nature, Vol 445, Feb 22 2007
Dalla Bella, S., Giguère, J-F. & Peretz, I. (2007) Singing proficiency in the general population. Journal of The Acoustical Society of America
Brain, Music, And Sound Research Center
Study Of Music And The Mind Hits A High Note In Montreal
Balter, M. & al.
Science 315, 758 (2007)
Tone deafness shows up in the brain
From Nature News
September 25, 2006
Amusia Online Test General
Try the Amusia Online Test yourself with this general version of the test
La Chanson Poison
Recorded radio show
Fréquence Libre, Radio-Canada
March 22, 2005
En quête d'un cerveau musical
La Recherche, Vol 364 p67
May, 2003
Brains out of tune
News & Views for Nature
Feb 2002
Music, maestro, please !
Nature, Vol 416 p12-14
March 7 2002
Le cerveau musical
From TV show Découverte.
The biology of music
From The Economist print edition.
What Makes the Mind Dance and Count
Michael Balter,
From the Science Magazine
Music of the hemispheres
From the Discover Magazine,
October 1996
À quoi sert la musique ?
From Le temps stratégique magazine,
March-April 2000
Sonata for humans, birds and humpback whales
From The New York Times,
January 9 2001
Music on the mind
From Newsweek,
July 24 2000
Music on the brain
From Time Magazine,
June 5 2000
Can't name that tune ?
From New Scientist magazine,
September 22 2001
Face the music
From The Nationnal History Magazine,
December 2001, January 2002
Perceptions: Musique en tête
From Le Devoir newspaper,
February 2, 2002
Stimuli examples
related to:Gosselin, N., Peretz, I. & Adolphs, R. (2001) Rôle de l'amygdale dans la perception de la peur évoquée par la musique. Journée scientifique du GRENE.
Stimuli examples
related to:Racette, A., Bard, C. & Peretz, I. (2006) Making non-fluent aphasics speak: Sing along! Brain , vol. 129, pp. 2571-2584
Stimuli examples
related to:Dalla Bella, S., Giguère, J-F. & Peretz, I. (2007) Singing proficiency in the general population. Journal of The Acoustical Society of America
Stimuli examples
related to:Peretz, I., Champod, S. & Hyde, K. (2003) Varieties of Musical Disorders: The Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences , vol. 999, pp. 58-75
Stimuli examples
related to:Dalla Bella, S. & Peretz, I. (2005) Fine differentiation and ordering of classical music requires little learning but rhythm. Cognition
Stimuli examples
related to:Peretz, I., Gagnon, L., Hébert, S. & Macoir, J. (2004) Singing in the brain: Insights from cognitive neuropsychology. Music Perception , vol. 21(3), pp. 373-390
Stimuli examples
related to:Peretz, I., Blood, A.J., Penhune, V. & Zatorre, R. (2001) Cortical deafness to dissonance. Brain , vol. 124, pp. 928-940
Born to be Deaf?
From the NPR radio website.
January 16 2002
Peretz, I., Ayotte, J., Zatorre, R., Mehler, J., Ahad, P., Penhune, V. & Jutras, B. (2002) Congenital Amusia: A Disorder of Fine-Grained Pitch Discrimination. Neuron , vol. 33, pp. 185-191
Stimuli examples
related to:Dalla Bella, S., Peretz, I., Rousseau, L. & Gosselin, N. (2001) A developmental study of the affective value of tempo and mode in music. Cognition , vol. 80, pp. B1-B10
Brain: Kids' got rhythm
From Nature Science Update,
April 4 2001
Dalla Bella, S., Peretz, I., Rousseau, L. & Gosselin, N. (2001) A developmental study of the affective value of tempo and mode in music. Cognition , vol. 80, pp. B1-B10