The neurocognitive components of pitch processing: Insights from absolute pitch

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 724-732

  Wilson, Sarah J ^a   Lusher, Dean ^a   Wan, Catherine Y ^a   Dudgeon, Paul ^a   Reutens, David C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Functional neuroimaging; Musical skill expertise; Pitch identification; Planum temporale; Relative pitch perception; Structural neuroimaging

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSIC; PITCH; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; WORKING MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; NERVE NET; PITCH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59749093839     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn121     Document Type: Article

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