Investigating musical disorders with diffusion tensor imaging: A comparison of imaging parameters

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1169, Issue , 2009, Pages 121-125

  Loui, Psyche ^a   Schlaug, Gottfried ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Arcuate fasciculus; Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Language; Musical disorders; Pitch perception

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MUSIC; NEUROIMAGING; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 68649124072     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04781.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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