Neural mechanisms underlying melodic perception and memory for pitch

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 1908-1919

  Zatorre, Robert J ^a,b   Evans, Alan C ^a   Meyer, Ernst ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

auditory working memory; frontal cortex; human auditory processing; music; PET; pitch; temporal cortex

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY; MUSIC; NOISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PITCH; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

EID: 0028198315     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.14-04-01908.1994     Document Type: Article

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