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Cracking the Pitch Code in Music and Language: Insights from Congenital Amusia and Autism Spectrum Disorders

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Coordinator	THE UNIVERSITY OF READING Organization address address: WHITEKNIGHTS CAMPUS WHITEKNIGHTS HOUSE city: READING postcode: RG6 6AH website: http://www.rdg.ac.uk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	United Kingdom [UK]
Project website	https://research.reading.ac.uk/caasd-project/
Total cost	1˙488˙814 €
EC max contribution	1˙488˙814 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
Code Call	ERC-2015-STG
Funding Scheme	ERC-STG
Starting year	2016
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2016-12-01 to 2021-11-30

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	THE UNIVERSITY OF READING THE UNIVERSITY OF READING Organization address address: WHITEKNIGHTS CAMPUS WHITEKNIGHTS HOUSE city: READING postcode: RG6 6AH website: http://www.rdg.ac.uk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	UK (READING)	coordinator	1˙431˙754.00
2	SHANGHAI NORMAL UNIVERSITY SHANGHAI NORMAL UNIVERSITY Organization address address: GUILIN ROAD 100 XUHUI city: SHANGHAI postcode: 200234 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	CN (SHANGHAI)	participant	57˙060.00

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Project objective

Music and language share similar properties and are processed in overlapping brain regions. As a common information-bearing element in music and language, pitch plays an essential role in encoding musical melodies, signifying linguistic functions, and conveying emotions through music and speech. However, two distinct neurodevelopmental disorders, congenital amusia (CA) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD), affecting millions of people in Europe and worldwide, may selectively impair individuals’ ability to process musical, linguistic, and emotional pitch. To date, it remains unclear why individuals with CA and ASD exhibit significant differences in music, speech, and emotion processing.

Under our Delicate Form-Function Balance Hypothesis, we will conduct a series of behavioural and neurophysiological experiments to test the central hypothesis that normal musical, linguistic, and emotional functioning requires a delicate balance in the encoding and decoding of form and function in musical, speech, and emotional communication, with musical communication centred on form and linguistic and emotional communication focused on function. Most critically, we hypothesize that the differences in music, speech, and emotional processing in CA and ASD are rooted not only in pitch and cognitive abilities, but also in the balance between form and function for each domain.

Addressing three specific aims regarding the impacts of cognitive processing styles, pitch processing skills, and language background (tone vs. non-tonal) on the behavioural and neurophysiological characteristics of music, language, and emotion processing in CA and ASD, this research will not only help reveal the underlying mechanisms of the two defining aspects of human cognition, music and language, but also form a laboratory for testing key hypotheses about the bio-behavioural manifestations of human neurodevelopmental disorders in music and language processing.

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2019	Alex Bacon, C. Philip Beaman, Fang Liu An Exploratory Study of Imagining Sounds and â€œHearingâ€ Music in Autism published pages: , ISSN: 0162-3257, DOI: 10.1007/s10803-019-04346-w	Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders	2020-01-29
2019	Linshu Zhou, Fang Liu, Jun Jiang, Cunmei Jiang Impaired emotional processing of chords in congenital amusia: Electrophysiological and behavioral evidence published pages: 103577, ISSN: 0278-2626, DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2019.06.001	Brain and Cognition 135	2019-09-02
2019	Linshu Zhou, Fang Liu, Jun Jiang, Hanyuan Jiang, Cunmei Jiang Abnormal neural responses to harmonic syntactic structures in congenital amusia published pages: e13394, ISSN: 0048-5772, DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13394	Psychophysiology	2019-09-02
2019	Jun Jiang, Fang Liu, Linshu Zhou, Cunmei Jiang The neural basis for understanding imitation-induced musical meaning: The role of the human mirror system published pages: 362-369, ISSN: 0166-4328, DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2018.11.020	Behavioural Brain Research 359	2019-09-02
2017	Linshu Zhou, Fang Liu, Xiaoyi Jing, Cunmei Jiang Neural differences between the processing of musical meaning conveyed by direction of pitch change and natural music in congenital amusia published pages: 29-38, ISSN: 0028-3932, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.12.024	Neuropsychologia 96	2019-06-19
2017	Cunmei Jiang, Fang Liu, Patrick C. M. Wong Sensitivity to musical emotion is influenced by tonal structure in congenital amusia published pages: , ISSN: 2045-2322, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-08005-x	Scientific Reports 7/1	2019-06-19
2018	Lijun Sun, Fang Liu, Linshu Zhou, Cunmei Jiang Musical training modulates the early but not the late stage of rhythmic syntactic processing published pages: e12983, ISSN: 0048-5772, DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12983	Psychophysiology 55/2	2019-06-19

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