Musicianship boosts perceptual learning of pseudoword-chimeras: An electrophysiological approach

Brain Topography

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 110-125

  Kühnis, Jürg ^a   Elmer, Stefan ^a   Meyer, Martin ^a   Jäncke, Lutz ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b International Normal Aging and Plasticity Imaging Center INAPIC   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Auditory chimeras; EEG; Microstates; Musical expertise; Perceptual learning; Plasticity; Topographical pattern analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHIMERA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; MUSICIAN; MUSICIANSHIP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SOUND; SPEECH; TIME; TOPOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CHIMERA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MUSIC; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872323499     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: 15736792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10548-012-0237-y     Document Type: Article

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