Absolute pitch-functional evidence of speech-relevant auditory acuity

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 447-455

  Oechslin, Mathias S ^a   Meyer, Martin ^a   Jäncke, Lutz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Absolute pitch; FMRI; Musical expertise; Speech processing

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE PITCH; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HEMISPHERE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSIC; MUSICIAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN MAPPING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE TESTS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSIC; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PITCH PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74249090633     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp113     Document Type: Article

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