Cognitive and methodological considerations on the effects of musical expertise on speech segmentation

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1252, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 108-115

  François, Clément ^a   Tillmann, Barbara ^b,c   Schön, Daniele ^d  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b LYON NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^d INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Musical expertise; Speech segmentation; Transfer of training

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXPLICIT MEMORY; HUMAN; IMPLICIT MEMORY; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MUSIC; MUSICAL EXPERTISE; MUSICIAN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; SPEECH; SPEECH SEGMENTATION; STUDENT T TEST; TRAINING;

EID: 84860253853     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06395.x     Document Type: Article

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