A little goes a long way: How the adult brain is shaped by musical training in childhood

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 34, 2012, Pages 11507-11510

  Skoe, Erika ^a   Kraus Dr , Nina ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MUSIC; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOUND; TRAINING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865270887     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1949-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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