Persistent patterns of brain activity: An EEG coherence study of the positive effect of music on spatial-temporal reasoning

Neurological Research

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 107-116

  Sarnthein, Johannes ^a,e   VonStein, Astrid ^a,b,d,f   Rappelsberger, Peter ^a   Petsche, Hellmuth ^a   Rauscher, Frances H ^c   Shaw, Gordon L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

prefrontal cortex; Spatial temporal reasoning; synchronization; temporo parietal cortex; trion model of cortical organization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MUSIC; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0030888473     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01616412.1997.11740782     Document Type: Article

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