Musical training heightens auditory brainstem function during sensitive periods in development

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Skoe, Erika ^a,b   Kraus, Nina ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory brainstem response; Development; Experience dependent plasticity; Musical training; Sensitive periods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885355268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00622     Document Type: Article

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