Musical training facilitates the neural discrimination of major versus minor chords in 13-year-old children

Psychophysiology

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1125-1132

  Virtala, P ^a,b   Huotilainen, M ^a,b,c   Putkinen, V ^a,b   Makkonen, T ^a,b   Tervaniemi, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

Auditory processing; Electroencephalography (EEG); Event related potential (ERP); Major chord; Minor chord; Mismatch negativity (MMN); Music; Musical training

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864017373     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2012.01386.x     Document Type: Article

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