The influence of Mozart's music on brain activity in the process of learning

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 117, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2703-2714

  Jaušovec, Norbert ^a   Jaušovec, Ksenija ^a   Gerlič, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Approximated entropy; Event related desynchronization; Learning; Memory; Mozart effect; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENTROPY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MUSIC; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MUSIC; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 33751006755     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2006.08.010     Document Type: Article

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