Brain response to birdsongs in bird experts

NeuroReport

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 335-340

  Chartrand, Jean Pierre ^a,c   Filion Bilodeau, Sarah ^a   Belin, Pascal ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Audition; Auditory expertise; Auditory evoked potentials; Bird experts; Electroencephalography; Voice

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SONGBIRD; SOUND; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TOPOGRAPHY; VOICE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIRDS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; REACTION TIME; SOUND;

EID: 34247608166     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e328013cea9     Document Type: Article

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