Spatial organization of EEG coherence during listening to consonant and dissonant chords

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 412, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 6-11

  Passynkova, Natalia ^a,b   Neubauer, Heinrich ^a   Scheich, Henning ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consonance; Dissonance; EEG coherence; Musical harmony

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSONANT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; MUSIC; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; THETA RHYTHM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 33845957875     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.09.029     Document Type: Article

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