The amusic brain: Lost in music, but not in space

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Tillmann, Barbara ^a,b   Jolicœur, Pierre ^c   Ishihara, Masami ^d   Gosselin, Nathalie ^c   Bertrand, Olivier ^a,e   Rossetti, Yves ^a,f   Peretz, Isabelle ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^e INSERM   (France)

^f HOSPICES CIVILS DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGNOSIA; AMUSIA; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL TEST; MUSIC; PITCH; RESPONSE TIME; ROTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; AGED; BRAIN; HEARING; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956329643     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010173     Document Type: Article

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