Musical expertise is related to neuroplastic changes of multisensory nature within the auditory cortex

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 709-717

  Pantev, Christo ^a   Paraskevopoulos, Evangelos ^a,b   Kuchenbuch, Anja ^a   Lu, Yao ^a   Herholz, Sibylle C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Human cortical plasticity; Magnetoencephalography; Multisensory processing; Musical training

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MULTISENSORY PROCESSING; MUSIC; MUSICAL EXPERTISE; MUSICAL TRAINING; MUSICIAN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PERCEPTION; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT; HEARING; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MUSIC; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84923668749     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12788     Document Type: Article

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