Musical expertise affects neural bases of letter recognition

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 538-549

  Proverbio, Alice Mado ^a   Manfredi, Mirella ^a   Zani, Alberto ^b   Adorni, Roberta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOIMAGING AND PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain plasticity; Expertise; Fusiform gyrus; Hemispheric asymmetry; Learning; Music; Musicians; Reading; VWFA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; READING; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; REACTION TIME; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872226254     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.12.001     Document Type: Article

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