Increased right auditory cortex activity in absolute pitch possessors

NeuroReport

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 1775-1779

  Hirose, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Kubota, Masaya ^a   Kimura, Ikumi ^a   Yumoto, Masato ^a   Sakakihara, Yoichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Absolute pitch; Attention; Auditory evoked neuromagnetic field; Magnetoencephalography; N100m; Neuroplasticity; Right auditory cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILDHOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOUND DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 27544443217     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000183906.00526.51     Document Type: Article

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