The gray matter volume of the amygdala is correlated with the perception of melodic intervals: A voxel-based morphometry study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Li, Xueting ^a   De Beuckelaer, Alain ^b,c   Guo, Jiahui ^d   Ma, Feilong ^d   Xu, Miao ^d   Liu, Jia ^d  

^a RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSIC; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; SOUND INTENSITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EMOTION; HEARING; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AMYGDALA; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSIC; ORGAN SIZE; PERIODICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903397811     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099889     Document Type: Article

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