Musical emotions in congenital amusia: Impaired recognition, but preserved emotional intensity.

These findings reveal that pitch deficits can hinder the recognition of emotions conveyed by musical pieces, while also highlighting the (at least partial) dissociation between emotion recognition and emotion intensity evaluation. Our study thus sheds light on the complex interactions between perceptual and emotional networks in the brain, by showing that impaired central auditory processing partially alters musical emotion processing. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).