Correlations in spontaneous activity and gray matter density between left and right sensoritmotor areas of pianists

NeuroReport

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 631-634

  Lv, Ya Ting ^a,c   Yang, Hong ^b,e   Wang, De Yi ^c   Li, Shu Yu ^d   Han, Ying ^c   Zhu, Chao Zhe ^c   He, Yong ^f   Tang, He Han ^b   Gong, Qi Yong ^b   Zang, Yu Feng ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Functional connectivity; Gray matter density; Magnetic resonance imaging; Music; Sensorimotor cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSICIAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSIC; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 41749094308     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3282fa6da0     Document Type: Article

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