Speech and music shape the listening brain: Evidence for shared domain-general mechanisms

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue JUN, 2013, Pages

  Asaridou, Salomi S ^a,b   McQueen, James M ^a,b,c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Auditory processing; Brain and behavior; Domain general processes; Interaction; Language; Music; Speech; Transfer effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878771010     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00321     Document Type: Article

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