Music and the Brain: Lessons from Brain Diseases and Some Reflections on the "Emotional" Brain

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 999, Issue , 2003, Pages 76-94

  Wieser, Heinz Gregor ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amusia; Brain; Brain lesions; Brain map; Consonance; Dissonance; EEG; Esthetics; Hallucination; Intracarotid amobarbital test; Music; Music abilities; Music intervals; Musicogenic epilepsy; Neurocognition; Pitch discrimination; Right temporal lobe seizure; Tonotopy

Indexed keywords

AMOBARBITAL;

AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DICHOTIC LISTENING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EPILEPSY; HEARING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; MUSIC; NERVE CONDUCTION; PSYCHOMETRY; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

EID: 0347569264     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1284.007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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