Brains "in concert": Frontal oscillatory alpha rhythms and empathy in professional musicians

NeuroImage

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 105-116

  Babiloni, Claudio ^a,b   Buffo, Paola ^c   Vecchio, Fabrizio ^d   Marzano, Nicola ^e   Del Percio, Claudio ^f   Spada, Danilo ^g   Rossi, Simone ^h   Bruni, Ivo ⁱ   Rossini, Paolo M ^b,j   Perani, Daniela ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^b Casa di Cura San Raffaele Cassino ^*  (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d Hospital San Giovanni Calibita   (Italy)

^e IRCCS SDN   (Italy)

^f IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

^g VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SIENA   (Italy)

ⁱ EB Neuro   (Italy)

^j CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

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Author keywords

Alpha rhythms; Electroencephalography (EEG); Empathy; Expert musicians; Standardized low resolution brain electromagnetic source tomography (sLORETA)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; EMPATHY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MUSICIAN; NEUROIMAGING; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; OCCUPATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856006680     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.12.008     Document Type: Article

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