Anatomical differences in the human inferior colliculus relate to the perceived valence of musical consonance and dissonance

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3099-3105

  Fritz, Thomas Hans ^a,b,c   Renders, Wiske ^b   Müller, Karsten ^a   Schmude, Paul ^a   Leman, Marc ^b   Turner, Robert ^a   Villringer, Arno ^a  

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

^b Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Dichotic; Inferior colliculus; Music; Pulvinar; Roughness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULVINAR; SIGNAL DETECTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HEARING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFERIOR COLLICULI; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885432764     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12305     Document Type: Article

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