Training-mediated leftward asymmetries during music processing: A cross-sectional and longitudinal fMRI analysis

NeuroImage

Volumn 75, Issue , 2013, Pages 97-107

  Ellis, Robert J ^a   Bruijn, Bente ^b   Norton, Andrea C ^a   Winner, Ellen ^c   Schlaug, Gottfried ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory discrimination; Hemispheric lateralization; Musical training; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MEMORY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MUSIC; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; WORKING MEMORY; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HEARING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MUSIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875684603     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.02.045     Document Type: Article

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