The impact of musicianship on the cortical mechanisms related to separating speech from background noise

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1044-1059

  Zendel, Benjamin Rich ^a,b,c,d   Tremblay, Charles David ^a,d   Belleville, Sylvie ^b,d   Peretz, Isabelle ^a,c,d  

^a Laboratoire international de recherche sur le cerveau la musique et le son Montreal   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

^c CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON BRAIN   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MUSICIAN; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; LINGUISTICS; MUSIC; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; NOISE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926164923     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00758     Document Type: Article

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