Musicians demonstrate experience-dependent brainstem enhancement of musical scale features within continuously gliding pitch

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 503, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 203-207

  Bidelman, Gavin M ^a   Gandour, Jackson T ^a   Krishnan, Ananthanarayan ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Experience dependent plasticity; Iterated rippled noise (IRN); Musical scale; Musical training; Subcortical; Tone language

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSICIAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN STEM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MUSIC; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053285987     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.08.036     Document Type: Article

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