Effects of selective attention on syntax processing in music and language

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2252-2267

  Maidhof, Clemens ^a,b,c   Koelsch, Stefan ^d  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MUSIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MUSIC; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960115480     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21542     Document Type: Article

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