Mental reversal of imagined melodies: A role for the posterior parietal cortex

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 775-789

  Zatorre, Robert J ^a,b   Halpern, Andrea R ^c   Bouffard, Marc ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b International Laboratory for Brain Music and Sound (BRAMS)   (Canada)

^c BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MENTAL TASK; MUSIC; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOUND; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL SYSTEM; WORKING MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MUSIC; OXYGEN; PARIETAL LOBE; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77649219329     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21239     Document Type: Article

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