Increased volume and function of right auditory cortex as a marker for absolute pitch

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1127-1137

  Wengenroth, Martina ^a   Blatow, Maria ^b   Heinecke, Armin ^c   Reinhardt, Julia ^b   Stippich, Christoph ^b   Hofmann, Elke ^d   Schneider, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c BRAIN INNOVATION B V   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS NORTHWESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

functional magnetic resonance imaging; Heschl's gyrus; magnetoencephalography MEG; musicians; planum temporale

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE PITCH; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898924217     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs391     Document Type: Article

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