Musical expertise boosts implicit learning of both musical and linguistic structures

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2357-2365

  Francois, Clément ^a   Schön, Daniele ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Brain plasticity; Language; Music; Musical expertise; N400; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MUSIC; MUSICIAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MUSIC; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE;

EID: 80052712405     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr022     Document Type: Article

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