Can you hear me now? Musical training shapes functional brain networks for selective auditory attention and hearing speech in noise

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue JUN, 2011, Pages

  Strait, Dana L ^a   Kraus, Nina ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Auditory evoked potentials; Cortical variability; Language; Music; Musicians; Prefrontal cortex; Speech in noise

Indexed keywords

EID: 81855167942     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00113     Document Type: Article

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