Size and synchronization of auditory cortex promotes musical, literacy, and Attentional skills in children

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 33, 2014, Pages 10937-10949

  Seither Preisler, Annemarie ^a,b   Parncutt, Richard ^b   Schneider, Peter ^c  

^a Department for Psychology Institute of Psychology   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ADHD; Auditory cortex; Auditory evoked responses; Magnetencephalography; Morphometry; Musical aptitude; Musical learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PROCESSING DISORDER; CHILD; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EDUCATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL COGNITIVE TEST; FEMALE; GENDER; HEARING; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERACTIVITY; IMPULSIVENESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MUSIC; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SKILL; SPELLING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; AUDITORY CORTEX; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MUSIC; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; ORGAN SIZE; READING;

EID: 84905845194     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5315-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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