Informal musical activities are linked to auditory discrimination and attention in 2-3-year-old children: An event-related potential study

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 654-661

  Putkinen, V ^a,b   Tervaniemi, M ^a,b   Huotilainen, M ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

Late discriminative negativity; Mismatch negativity; Musical development; P3a; Singing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGING; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC;

EID: 84873989409     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12049     Document Type: Article

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