Representation of harmony rules in the human brain: Further evidence from event-related potentials

Brain Research

Volumn 1142, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 169-177

  Leino, Sakari ^a   Brattico, Elvira ^a   Tervaniemi, Mari ^a   Vuust, Peter ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC   (Denmark)

Author keywords

ERAN; Event related potential; Harmony; MMN; Music

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33947136754     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.01.049     Document Type: Article

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