Increased auditory cortical representation in musicians

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6678, 1998, Pages 811-814

  Pantev, Christo ^a   Oostenveld, Robert ^a   Engelien, Almut ^a   Ross, Bernhard ^a   Roberts, Larry E ^b   Hoke, Manfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; HUMAN; MUSIC; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY CORTEX;

ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MUSIC; OCCUPATIONS; PITCH DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032560229     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/33918     Document Type: Article

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