Neural correlates of consonance, dissonance, and the hierarchy of musical pitch in the human brainstem

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 42, 2009, Pages 13165-13171

  Bidelman, Gavin M ^a   Krishnan, Ananthanarayan ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSICAL PITCH; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN STEM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SOUND; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350344684     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3900-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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