Plasticity of the human auditory cortex related to musical training

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2140-2154

  Pantev, Christo ^a   Herholz, Sibylle C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Neuroscience of music, Tinnitus; Notched music; Uni modal and multimodal cortical plasticity

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COGNITION; EMOTION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MEMORY; MUSIC THERAPY; MUSICIAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROSCIENCE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SOUND INTENSITY; TINNITUS;

AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; MUSIC; MUSIC THERAPY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; TINNITUS;

EID: 80053900883     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2011.06.010     Document Type: Review

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