Listening to the human voice alters sensorimotor brain rhythms

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Lévêque, Yohana ^a,c   Schon̈, Daniele ^b,d  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MU RHYTHM; NORMAL HUMAN; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SINGING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOCALIZATION; VOICE;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN WAVES; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892998893     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080659     Document Type: Article

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