Processing of hierarchical syntactic structure in music

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 38, 2013, Pages 15443-15448

  Koelsch, Stefan ^a   Rohrmeier, Martin ^a,b   Torrecuso, Renzo ^a,c   Jentschke, Sebastian ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CONTEXT-FREE GRAMMAR; EEG; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PARSING; SYNTAX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MUSIC; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS;

EID: 84884332703     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1300272110     Document Type: Article

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