Occipital cortical thickness predicts performance on pitch and musical tasks in blind individuals

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2455-2465

  Voss, Patrice ^a,b   Zatorre, Robert J ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Laboratoire international de recherche sur le cerveau la musique et le son Montreal   (Canada)

Author keywords

auditory processing; blindness; cortical thickness; crossmodal plasticity; occipital cortex; pitch processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLINDNESS; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MUSIC; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PITCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THICKNESS;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BLINDNESS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84857936019     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr311     Document Type: Article

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