The influence of Mozart's sonata K.448 on visual attention: An ERPs study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 434, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 35-40

  Zhu, Weina ^a   Zhao, Lun ^b,c   Zhang, Junjun ^a   Ding, Xiaojun ^a   Liu, Haiwei ^a   Ni, Enzhi ^a   Ma, Yuanye ^a,d   Zhou, Changle ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JIANGSU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Key Lab of Linguistics Sciences and Neuro cognition Engineering   (China)

^d KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Event related potentials (ERPs); Mozart effect; P3a; P3b; Visual oddball task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MUSIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 40849135548     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.01.043     Document Type: Article

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