The influence of Mozart's sonata K. 448 on brain activity during the performance of spatial rotation and numerical tasks

Brain Topography

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 207-218

  Jaušovec, Norbert ^a   Habe, Katarina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Even related desynchronization; Event related coherence; Induced gamma band; Mozart effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MUSIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MUSIC; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 22144487663     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10548-005-6030-4     Document Type: Article

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