Functional MRI/Event-related potential study of sensory consonance and dissonance in musicians and nonmusicians

NeuroReport

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 87-92

  Minati, Ludovico ^a,c   Rosazza, Cristina ^a   D'Incerti, Ludovico ^a   Pietrocini, Emanuela ^b   Valentini, Laura ^a   Scaioli, Vidmer ^a   Loveday, Catherine ^c   Bruzzone, Maria Grazia ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^b Accademia Angelica Costantiniana di Lettere Arti e Scienze ^*  (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chords; Event related potentials; Functional MRI; Helmholtz's theory; Lateralization; N2 event related potential component; P1 event related potential component; Pythagorean ratios; Sensory consonance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MALE; MUSICIAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEARING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; PARIETAL LOBE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 58149248028     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32831af235     Document Type: Article

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