Do Older Professional Musicians Have Cognitive Advantages?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Amer, Tarek ^a,b   Kalender, Beste ^a   Hasher, Lynn ^a,b   Trehub, Sandra E ^a   Wong, Yukwal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HEALTH STATUS; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MENTAL CAPACITY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; MUSICIAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; REACTION TIME; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84881336937     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071630     Document Type: Article

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