Conditional associative memory for musical stimuli in nonmusicians: Implications for absolute pitch

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 34, 2005, Pages 7718-7723

  Bermudez, Patrick ^a   Zatorre, Robert J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Absolute pitch; Auditory; Conditional; Frontal cortex; Memory; Music

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PITCH; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MUSIC; PITCH DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 23944481885     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1560-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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