Cognitive factors shape brain networks for auditory skills: Spotlight on auditory working memory

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1252, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 100-107

  Kraus, Nina ^a   Strait, Dana L ^a   Parbery Clark, Alexandra ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory working memory; Brainstem; Experience dependent plasticity; Hearing in noise

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; COGNITION; HEARING; HUMAN; MUSIC THERAPY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NOISE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOUND; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84860238152     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2012.06463.x     Document Type: Article

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