Musicians show general enhancement of complex sound encoding and better inhibition of irrelevant auditory change in music: An ERP study

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1295-1307

  Kaganovich, Natalya ^a   Kim, Jihyun ^a   Herring, Caryn ^a   Schumaker, Jennifer ^a   Macpherson, Megan ^a   Weber Fox, Christine ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory change; Auditory distraction; Auditory perception in musicians; Musical training; Timbre perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MUSIC; MUSICIAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY ENCODING OF VOICE; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOICE; WORKING MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876319569     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12110     Document Type: Article

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