Neural correlates of absolute pitch differ between blind and sighted musicians

NeuroReport

Volumn 17, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 1853-1857

  Gaab, Nadine ^a,b   Schulze, Katrin ^a   Ozdemir, Elif ^a   Schlaug, Gottfried ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute pitch; Blind; Functional plasticity; Music; Occipital lobe; Parietal lobe

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSIC; MUSICIAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSIC; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OXYGEN; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PITCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33845748692     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3280107bee     Document Type: Article

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