Extensive piano practicing has regionally specific effects on white matter development

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1148-1150

  Bengtsson, Sara L ^a   Nagy, Zoltán ^a,b   Skare, Stefan ^b   Forsman, Lea ^a   Forssberg, Hans ^a   Ullén, Fredrik ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMAN; MUSICIAN; MYELINATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; MYELINATED NERVE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 27644458332     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1516     Document Type: Article

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