Effects of Musical Training on the Auditory Cortex in Children

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 999, Issue , 2003, Pages 506-513

  Trainor, Laurel J ^a   Shahin, Antoine ^a   Roberts, Larry E ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Children; Development; Event related potential (ERP); Learning; Musical training; Musicians; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

AGING; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; MUSIC; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOUND;

EID: 0346938213     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1284.061     Document Type: Conference Paper

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