Auditory stroop and absolute pitch: An fMRI study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1579-1590

  Schulze, Katrin ^a,b   Mueller, Karsten ^a   Koelsch, Stefan ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Absolute pitch; Auditory perception; Auditory stroop; Auditory working memory; Superior temporal gyrus sulcus

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE PITCH; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MUSICIAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; WORKING MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MUSIC; OXYGEN; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879219426     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22010     Document Type: Article

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