Twelve months of active musical training in 8-to 10-year-old children enhances the preattentive processing of syllabic duration and voice onset time

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 956-967

  Chobert, Julie ^a   François, Clément ^b   Velay, Jean Luc ^a   Besson, Mireille ^a,c  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c CUBAN NEUROSCIENCE CENTER   (Cuba)

Author keywords

children; duration; frequency; longitudinal study; mismatch negativity (MMN); musical training; syllables; transfer of training; voice onset time (VOT)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BRAIN CORTEX; CHILD; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; MUSIC; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PAINTING; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TRAINING; VOICE ONSET TIME; VOWEL;

CHILDREN; DURATION; FREQUENCY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY (MMN); MUSICAL TRAINING; SYLLABLES; TRANSFER OF TRAINING; VOICE ONSET TIME (VOT);

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD; COCHLEAR MICROPHONIC POTENTIALS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSIC; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; TEACHING;

EID: 84896344734     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs377     Document Type: Article

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