The "Mozart Effect": An Electroencephalographic Analysis Employing the Methods of Induced Event-Related Desynchronization/ Synchronization and Event-Related Coherence

Brain Topography

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 73-84

  Jaušovec, Norbert ^a   Habe, Katarina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Coherence; Event related desynchtonization; Mozart effect; Music

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOOD; MUSIC; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AFFECT; ALPHA RHYTHM; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 0346099294     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BRAT.0000006331.10425.4b     Document Type: Article

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