Visual memory in musicians and non-musicians

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JUNE, 2014, Pages

  Rodrigues, Ana Carolina ^a   Loureiro, Maurício ^a   Caramelli, Paulo ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cognition; Musical training; Neuroplasticity; Visual attention; Visual memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSICIAN; PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84903482539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00424     Document Type: Article

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