Processing of voiced and unvoiced acoustic stimuli in musicians

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue SEP, 2011, Pages

  Ott, Cyrill Guy Martin ^a   Langer, Nicolas ^a   Oechslin, Mathias S ^b   Meyer, Martin ^a   Jäncke, Lutz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Experience dependent plasticity; Microstates; Musical expertise; Musicians; N1; Speech; Topographic pattern analysis; Transfer effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859069219     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00195     Document Type: Article

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