Pathways to seeing music: Enhanced structural connectivity in colored-music synesthesia

NeuroImage

Volumn 74, Issue , 2013, Pages 359-366

  Zamm, Anna ^a,c   Schlaug, Gottfried ^a   Eagleman, David M ^b   Loui, Psyche ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Color; Diffusion tensor imaging; Music; Synesthesia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARCUATE FASCICULUS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLORED MUSIC SYNESTHESIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTOOCCIPITAL FASCICULUS; INFERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; MALE; NERVE TRACT; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; STRUCTURAL CONNECTIVITY; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84875666302     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.02.024     Document Type: Article

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