Enhanced syllable discrimination thresholds in musicians

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Zuk, Jennifer ^a,b   Ozernov Palchik, Ola ^a   Kim, Heesoo ^c   Lakshminarayanan, Kala ^d   Gabrieli, John D E ^e   Tallal, Paula ^d   Gaab, Nadine ^a,b,f  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSICIAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOICE ONSET TIME; ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; LINGUISTICS; MUSIC; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MUSIC; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891946521     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080546     Document Type: Article

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