The role of musical aptitude and language skills in preattentive duration processing in school-aged children

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 460, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 161-165

  Milovanov, Riia ^a,b   Huotilainen, Minna ^b,c   Esquef, Paulo A A ^d,e   Alku, Paavo ^d   Välimäki, Vesa ^d   Tervaniemi, Mari ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

ERP; Linguistic skills; MMN; Musical aptitude; Seashore test; Sound duration

Indexed keywords

APTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOUND; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; APTITUDE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; MUSIC; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 67349099161     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.05.063     Document Type: Article

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