Music training and speech perception: A gene-environment interaction

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1337, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 170-177

  Schellenberg, E Glenn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aptitude; Intelligence; Music training; Perception; Personality; Speech

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; BACKWARD MASKING; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEARING; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LINGUISTICS; MUSIC; NERVE POTENTIAL; READING; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SOCIAL STATUS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPELLING; VOICE ONSET TIME; CHILD; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; GENETICS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LANGUAGE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH;

CHILD; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LANGUAGE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MUSIC; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PERCEPTION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84924546527     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12627     Document Type: Article

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