Are left fronto-temporal brain areas a prerequisite for normal music-syntactic processing?

Cortex

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 659-673

  Sammler, Daniela ^a   Koelsch, Stefan ^a,b   Friederici, Angela D ^a  

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

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain lesions; ELAN; ERAN; Language; Music; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FRONTAL GYRUS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MUSIC; TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 79954633118     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2010.04.007     Document Type: Article

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