The musical brain: Brain waves reveal the neurophysiological basis of musicality in human subjects

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-4

  Tervaniemi, M ^a   Ilvonen, T ^a   Karma, K ^b   Alho, K ^a   Naatanen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Sibelius Akatemia   (Finland)

Author keywords

Auditory perception; Complex tone perception; Event related potentials; Human audition; Mismatch negativity; Music perception

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC;

EID: 0030937010     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00217-6     Document Type: Article

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