Cortical plasticity in 4-month-Old infants: Specific effects of experience with musical timbres

Brain Topography

Volumn 24, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 192-203

  Trainor, Laurel J ^a,b   Lee, Kathleen ^a   Bosnyak, Daniel J ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory; Cortical plasticity; Development; Infancy; Learning; Music; Timbre

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MUSIC; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOPOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MUSIC; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PITCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 80755188993     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: 15736792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10548-011-0177-y     Document Type: Article

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