Tapping polyrhythms in music activates language areas

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 494, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 211-216

  Vuust, Peter ^a,c   Wallentin, Mikkel ^a,b   Mouridsen, Kim ^a   Østergaard, Leif ^a   Roepstorff, Andreas ^a,b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Auditory; FMRI; Language; Meter; Motor; Music; Polyrhythm; Rhythm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL TASK; MUSIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHYTHM; STIMULUS;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSIC;

EID: 79954423239     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.03.015     Document Type: Article

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