Neuroplasticity of semantic representations for musical instruments in professional musicians

NeuroImage

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1714-1725

  Hoenig, Klaus ^a   Müller, Cornelia ^a   Herrnberger, Bärbel ^a   Sim, Eun Jin ^a   Spitzer, Manfred ^a   Ehret, Günter ^a   Kiefer, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Conceptual neuroplasticity; Embodied cognition; FMRI; Language

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENT; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENT; MUSICIAN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSIC; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; OCCUPATIONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS;

EID: 79955467445     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.02.065     Document Type: Article

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