Playing piano in the mind - An fMRI study on music imagery and performance in pianists

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 219-228

  Meister, I G ^a   Krings, T ^a   Foltys, H ^a   Boroojerdi, B ^a   Muller M ^a   Topper R ^a   Thron, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognition; fMRI; Music imagery; Music performance; Neural basis of behavior; Visuomotor integration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSIC; MUSICIAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PERFORMANCE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STUDENT;

ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSIC; NERVE NET; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 1942452401     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2003.12.005     Document Type: Article

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