Cross-domain effects of music and language experience on the representation of pitch in the human auditory brainstem

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 425-434

  Bidelman, Gavin M ^a   Gandour, Jackson T ^a   Krishnan, Ananthanarayan ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MUSIC; MUSICIAN; NOISE; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN STEM; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SOUND; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650133932     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21362     Document Type: Article

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