Music mnemonics aid verbal memory and induce learning - Related brain plasticity in multiple sclerosis

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JUNE, 2014, Pages

  Thaut, Michael H ^a   Peterson, David A ^b,c   McIntosh, Gerald C ^d   Hoemberg, Volker ^e  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Department of Neurology SRH Rehabilitation Hospital Bad Wimpfen   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpha beta oscillations; Deep encoding; Electroencephalogram; Learning related neural synchrony; Musical mnemonic; Verbal memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LEARNING AND MEMORY TEST; LEARNING RELATED SYNCHRONIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUSIC THERAPY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; OSCILLATORY NETWORK SYNCHRONIZATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REY AUDITORY VERBAL LEARNING TEST; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPECTRAL POWER; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD LIST RECALL; WORD ORDER MEMORY;

EID: 84902583597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00395     Document Type: Article

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