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

Project Information

CAASD

Grant agreement ID: 678733

DOI

10.3030/678733

Project closed

EC signature date 25 November 2016

Start date 1 December 2016

End date 31 May 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 488 814,00

EU contribution

€ 1 488 814,00

Coordinated by

THE UNIVERSITY OF READING
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (40)

Bilingual exposure might enhance L1 development in Cantonese–English bilingual autistic children: Evidence from the production of focus

Author(s): Haoyan Ge, Albert Kwing Lok Lee, Hoi Kwan Yuen, Fang Liu, and Virginia Yip
Published in: Autism, Issue 28, 2024, Page(s) 1795-1808, ISSN 1362-3613
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/13623613231207449

Do autistic individuals show atypical performance in probabilistic learning? A comparison of cue-number, predictive strength, and prediction error

Author(s): Jia Hoong Ong, Lei Zhang, Fang Liu
Published in: Molecular Autism, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2040-2392
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s13229-025-00651-7

Individuals with autism spectrum disorder are impaired in absolute but not relative pitch and duration matching in speech and song imitation

Author(s): Li Wang, Peter Q. Pfordresher, Cunmei Jiang, Fang Liu
Published in: Autism Research, 2021, ISSN 1939-3806
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/aur.2569

Probabilistic learning of cue-outcome associations is not influenced by autistic traits

Author(s): Jia Hoong Ong; Fang Liu
Published in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022, ISSN 0162-3257
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-022-05690-0

Exploring the role of singing, semantics, and amusia screening in speech-in-noise perception in musicians and non-musicians

Author(s): Ariadne Loutrari, Aseel Alqadi, Cunmei Jiang, & Fang Liu
Published in: Cognitive Processing, 2023, ISSN 1612-4790
Publisher: SpringerLink
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-023-01165-x

The autistic brain can process local but not global emotion regularities in facial and musical sequences

Author(s): Jie Xu, Linshu Zhou, Fang Liu, Chao Xue, Jun Jiang, Cunmei Jiang
Published in: Autism Research, Issue 15, 2022, Page(s) 222-240, ISSN 1939-3806
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/aur.2635

Investigating implicit emotion processing in autism spectrum disorder across age groups: A cross-modal emotional priming study

Author(s): Florence Y. N. Leung, Vesna Stojanovik, Cunmei Jiang, Fang Liu
Published in: Autism Research, Issue 17, 4, 2024, Page(s) 824-837, ISSN 1939-3806
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/aur.3124

Comprehension of prosodically- and syntactically-marked focus in Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorder

Author(s): Haoyan Ge, Fang Liu, Hoi Kwan Yuen, Aishu Chen & Virginia Yip
Published in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Issue 53, 2023, Page(s) 1255-1268, ISSN 0162-3257
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-022-05770-1

Linguistic and Musical Syntax Processing in Autistic and Non‐Autistic Individuals: An Event‐Related Potential (<scp>ERP</scp>) Study

Author(s): Jiayin Li, Anna Petrova, Zivile Bernotaite, Maleeha Sujawal, Chen Zhao, Hiba Ahmed, Cunmei Jiang, Fang Liu
Published in: Autism Research, 2025, ISSN 1939-3806
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/aur.70038

The impact of built environment design on mental health: A COVID-19 lockdown perspective

Author(s): Jie Xiao; Jianfeng Zhao; Zhiwen Luo; Fang Liu; David Greenwood
Published in: Health & Place, Issue 77, 102889, 2022, ISSN 1353-8292
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102889

The relationship between autism and pitch perception is modulated by cognitive abilities

Author(s): Jia Hoong Ong, Chen Zhao, Alex Bacon, Florence Yik Nam Leung, Anamarija Veic, Li Wang, Cunmei Jiang, & Fang Liu
Published in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023, ISSN 0162-3257
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-023-06075-7

Predictive processing of music and language in autism: Evidence from Mandarin and English speakers

Author(s): Chen Zhao, Jia Hoong Ong, Anamarija Veic, Aniruddh D. Patel, Cunmei Jiang, Allison R. Fogel, Li Wang, Qingqi Hou, Dipsikha Das, Cara Crasto, Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Tim I. Williams, Ariadne Loutrari, Fang Liu
Published in: Autism Research, Issue 17, 2024, Page(s) 1230-1257, ISSN 1939-3806
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/aur.3133

Editorial: Crosstalk between intonation and lexical tones: Linguistic, cognitive and neuroscience perspectives

Author(s): Hatice Zora; Carlos Gussenhoven; Annie Tremblay; Fang Liu
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 2, 2022, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1101499

Weighting of cues to categorization of song versus speech in tone-language and non-tone-language speakers

Author(s): Kachlicka, M., Patel, A. D., Liu, F., & Tierney, A.
Published in: Cognition, 2024, ISSN 0010-0277
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105757

Atypical vocal imitation of speech and song in autism spectrum disorder: Evidence from Mandarin speakers

Author(s): Li Wang, Peter Q Pfordresher, Cunmei Jiang, Fang Liu
Published in: Autism, Issue 29, 2025, Page(s) 408-423, ISSN 1362-3613
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/13623613241275395

Auditory and Semantic Processing of Speech‐in‐Noise in Autism: A Behavioral and <scp>EEG</scp> Study

Author(s): Jiayin Li, Maleeha Sujawal, Zivile Bernotaite, Ian Cunnings, Fang Liu
Published in: Autism Research, 2025, ISSN 1939-3806
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/aur.70097

Frequent experience with face coverings for 10 months improves emotion perception among individuals with high autistic traits: A repeated cross-sectional study

Author(s): Jia Hoong Ong; Fang Liu
Published in: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Issue 76, 7, 2023, Page(s) 1599-1608, ISSN 1747-0218
Publisher: Psychology Press
DOI: 10.1177/17470218221135585

Perception and Production of Statement-Question Intonation in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Developmental Investigation

Author(s): Li Wang; C. Philip Beaman; Cunmei Jiang; Fang Liu
Published in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Issue 52, 2022, Page(s) 3456–3472, ISSN 0162-3257
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-021-05220-4

The human brain processes hierarchical structures of meter and harmony differently: Evidence from musicians and nonmusicians

Author(s): Lijun Sun, William Forde Thompson, Fang Liu, Linshu Zhou, Cunmei Jiang
Published in: Psychophysiology, Issue 57/9, 2020, ISSN 0048-5772
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13598

Individuals with congenital amusia do not show context-dependent perception of tonal categories

Author(s): Fang Liu, Yanjun Yin, Alice H.D. Chan, Virginia Yip, Patrick C.M. Wong
Published in: Brain and Language, Issue 215, 2021, Page(s) 104908, ISSN 0093-934X
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2021.104908

Song imitation in congenital amusia: Performance partially facilitated by melody familiarity but not by lyrics

Author(s): Ariadne Loutrari, Cunmei Jiang, Fang Liu
Published in: Music Perception, Issue 39, 2022, Page(s) 341-360, ISSN 0730-7829
Publisher: University of California at Berkeley
DOI: 10.1525/mp.2022.39.4.341

The effect of musical training and language background on vocal imitation of pitch in speech and song

Author(s): Honda, C., Pruitt, T., Greenspon, E., Liu, F., & Pfordresher, P. Q.
Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2023, ISSN 1939-1277
Publisher: American Psychological Association

Musical training modulates the early but not the late stage of rhythmic syntactic processing

Author(s): Lijun Sun, Fang Liu, Linshu Zhou, Cunmei Jiang
Published in: Psychophysiology, Issue 55/2, 2018, Page(s) e12983, ISSN 0048-5772
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12983

Sensitivity to musical emotion is influenced by tonal structure in congenital amusia

Author(s): Cunmei Jiang, Fang Liu, Patrick C. M. Wong
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 7/1, 2017, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-08005-x

Neural differences between the processing of musical meaning conveyed by direction of pitch change and natural music in congenital amusia

Author(s): Linshu Zhou, Fang Liu, Xiaoyi Jing, Cunmei Jiang
Published in: Neuropsychologia, Issue 96, 2017, Page(s) 29-38, ISSN 0028-3932
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.12.024

The neural basis for understanding imitation-induced musical meaning: The role of the human mirror system

Author(s): Jun Jiang, Fang Liu, Linshu Zhou, Cunmei Jiang
Published in: Behavioural Brain Research, Issue 359, 2019, Page(s) 362-369, ISSN 0166-4328
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2018.11.020

Abnormal neural responses to harmonic syntactic structures in congenital amusia

Author(s): Linshu Zhou, Fang Liu, Jun Jiang, Hanyuan Jiang, Cunmei Jiang
Published in: Psychophysiology, 2019, Page(s) e13394, ISSN 0048-5772
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13394

Impaired emotional processing of chords in congenital amusia: Electrophysiological and behavioral evidence

Author(s): Linshu Zhou, Fang Liu, Jun Jiang, Cunmei Jiang
Published in: Brain and Cognition, Issue 135, 2019, Page(s) 103577, ISSN 0278-2626
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2019.06.001

An Exploratory Study of Imagining Sounds and “Hearing” Music in Autism

Author(s): Alex Bacon, C. Philip Beaman, Fang Liu
Published in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Issue 50, 2019, Page(s) 1123-1132, ISSN 0162-3257
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-019-04346-w

The form and function processing of lexical tone and intonation in tone-language-speaking children with autism spectrum disorder

Author(s): Li Wang, Sanrong Xiao, Cunmei Jiang, Qingqi Hou, Alice H. D. Chan, Patrick C. M. Wong, Fang Liu
Published in: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Issue 154, 2023, Page(s) 467–481, ISSN 0001-4966
Publisher: Acoustical Society of America
DOI: 10.1121/10.0020271

Globally, songs and instrumental melodies are slower, higher, and use more stable pitches than speech: A registered report.

Author(s): Ozaki, Y., Tierney, A., Pfordresher, P. Q., McBride, J. M., Benetos, E., Proutskouva, P., Chiba, G., Liu, F., Jacoby, N., Purdy, S. C., Opondo, P., Fitch, W. T., Hegde, S., Rocamora, M., Thorne, R., Nweke, F., Sadaphal, D., Sadaphal, P., Hadavi, S., Fujii, S., Choo, S., Naruse, M., Ehara, U., Sy, L., Parselelo, M. L., Anglada-Tort, M., Hansen, N. Chr., Haiduk, F., Færøvik, U., Magalhães, V., Kr
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 10, 2024, Page(s) eadm9797, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adm9797

Time-varying similarity of neural responses to musical tension is shaped by physical features and musical themes

Author(s): Chao Xue, Yiran Chen, William Forde Thompson, Fang Liu, Cunmei Jiang
Published in: International Journal of Psychophysiology, Issue 202, 2024, Page(s) 112387, ISSN 0167-8760
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112387

Auditory imagery in congenital amusia

Author(s): Ariadne Loutrari, Kathryn Ansell, C Philip Beaman, Cunmei Jiang, and Fang Liu
Published in: Musicae Scientiae, 2022, ISSN 2045-4147
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
DOI: 10.1177/10298649221122870

Emotion recognition across visual and auditory modalities in autism spectrum disorder (ASD): A systematic review and meta-analysis

Author(s): Florence Yik Nam Leung, Jacqueline Sin, Caitlin Dawson, Jia Hoong Ong, Chen Zhao, Anamarija Veić, Fang Liu
Published in: Developmental Review, Issue 63, 2022, Page(s) 101000, ISSN 0273-2297
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.dr.2021.101000

The Reading Everyday Emotion Database (REED): a set of audio-visual recordings of emotions in music and language

Author(s): Jia Hoong Ong, Florence Yik Nam Leung, & Fang Liu
Published in: Language Resources and Evaluation, 2023, ISSN 1574-0218
Publisher: Springer Link
DOI: 10.1007/s10579-023-09698-5

Explicit processing of melodic structure in congenital amusia can be improved by redescription-associate learning

Author(s): Jun Jiang; Fang Liu; Linshu Zhou; Liaoliao Chen; Cunmei Jiang
Published in: Neuropsychologia, Issue 182, 108521, 2023, ISSN 1873-3514
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108521

Musicians show enhanced perception, but not production, of native lexical tones

Author(s): Jia Hoong Ong, Patrick C. M. Wong, Fang Liu
Published in: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Issue 148/6, 2020, Page(s) 3443-3454, ISSN 0001-4966
Publisher: Acoustical Society of America
DOI: 10.1121/10.0002776

Emotion recognition in autism spectrum disorder across age groups: A cross-sectional investigation of various visual and auditory communicative domains

Author(s): Florence Y. N. Leung, Vesna Stojanovik, Martina Micai, Cunmei Jiang, Fang Liu
Published in: Autism Research, Issue 16, 2023, Page(s) 783-801, ISSN 1939-3806
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/aur.2896

Mental representations of speech and musical pitch contours reveal a diversity of profiles in autism spectrum disorder

Author(s): Li Wang; Jia Hoong Ong; Emmanuel Ponsot; Qingqi Hou; Cunmei Jiang; Fang Liu
Published in: Autism, Issue 27, 3, 2023, Page(s) 629-646, ISSN 1362-3613
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/13623613221111207

The Effects of Timbre on Neural Responses to Musical Emotion

Author(s): Weixia Zhang, Fang Liu, Linshu Zhou, Wanqi Wang, Hanyuan Jiang, Cunmei Jiang
Published in: Music Perception, Issue 37/2, 2019, Page(s) 134-146, ISSN 0730-7829
Publisher: University of California at Berkeley
DOI: 10.1525/mp.2019.37.2.134

Other (4)

The Reading Everyday Emotion Database (REED)

Author(s): Jia Hoong Ong, Florence Leung, Fang Liu
Published in: 2021
Publisher: University of Reading
DOI: 10.17864/1947.000336

Absolute pitch ability is not associated with advantage in musical tension processing

Author(s): Linshu Zhou, Fang Liu, Tang Hai, Jun Jiang, Dongrui Man, Cunmei Jiang
Published in: 2020
Publisher: PsyArXiv
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/r6vm8

The Reading Everyday Emotion Database (REED): A set of audio-visual recordings of emotions in music and language

Author(s): Jia Hoong Ong, Florence Yik Nam Leung, Fang Liu
Published in: 2023, ISSN 2693-5015
Publisher: Research Square
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2546777/v1

Autism, pitch perception and cognition

Author(s): Fang Liu, Jia Hoong Ong
Published in: 2021
Publisher: University of Reading
DOI: 10.17864/1947.316