Impaired pitch perception and memory in congenital amusia: The deficit starts in the auditory cortex

Brain

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1639-1661

  Albouy, Philippe ^a,b   Mattout, Jérémie ^a,b   Bouet, Romain ^a,b   Maby, Emmanuel ^a,b   Sanchez, Gaëtan ^a,b   Aguera, Pierre Emmanuel ^a,b   Daligault, Sébastien ^c   Delpuech, Claude ^a,b,c   Bertrand, Olivier ^a,b   Caclin, Anne ^a,b   Tillmann, Barbara ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c CERMEP IMAGERIE DU VIVANT   (France)

Author keywords

auditory cortex; congenital amusia; magneto encephalography; short term memory; voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL AMUSIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84877273053     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awt082     Document Type: Article

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