Faster sound stream segmentation in musicians than in nonmusicians

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  François, Clément ^a,b   Jaillet, Florent ^c   Takerkar, Sylvain ^c   Schön, Daniele ^d  

^a Institute of Biomedicine Research of Bellvitge   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; MUSIC; MUSICIAN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; RESPONSE TIME; SOUND; SPEECH SEGMENTATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; HEARING; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; SOUND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904262972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101340     Document Type: Article

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