Differential roles of right temporal cortex and broca's area in pitch processing: Evidence from music and mandarin

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2045-2054

  Nan, Yun ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

Author keywords

FMRI; Musicians; Tone

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MUSIC; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARS TRIANGULARIS; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

FMRI; MUSICIANS; TONE;

BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84882715651     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22046     Document Type: Article

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