Neural correlates of lyrical improvisation: An fMRI study of freestyle rap

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Liu, Siyuan ^a   Chow, Ho Ming ^a   Xu, Yisheng ^a   Erkkinen, Michael G ^a   Swett, Katherine E ^a   Eagle, Michael W ^b   Rizik Baer, Daniel A ^b   Braun, Allen R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

^b Justice by Uniting Creative Energy ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CINGULATE GYRUS; CREATIVITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MUSIC; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; CREATIVITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSIC; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84870804382     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00834     Document Type: Article

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