The musician effect: Does it persist under degraded pitch conditions of cochlear implant simulations?

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue 8 JUN, 2014, Pages

  Fuller, Christina D ^a,b   Galvin III, John J ^a,b,c,d   Maat, Bert ^a,b   Free, Rolien H ^a,b   Başkent, Deniz ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c HOUSE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cochlear implant; Emotion identification; Music perception; Music training; Musician effect; Pitch processing; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MUSICIAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; SKILL; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FEEDBACK;

EID: 84904889711     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00179     Document Type: Article

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