The music of speech: Music training facilitates pitch processing in both music and language

Psychophysiology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 341-349

  Schön, Daniele ^a,b,c   Magne, Cyrille ^a   Besson, Mireille ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c CNRS INPC   (France)

Author keywords

Electroencephalogram; Event related potentials; Music; Pitch contour; Plasticity; Prosody

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MUSIC; MUSICIAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 2642584944     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-8986.00172.x     Document Type: Article

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