Does musical enrichment enhance the neural coding of syllables? Neuroscientific interventions and the importance of behavioral data

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Evans, Samuel ^a   Meekings, Sophie ^a   Nuttall, Helen E ^b   Jasmin, Kyle M ^a   Boebinger, Dana ^a   Adank, Patti ^b   Scott, Sophie K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory brainstem response (ABR); Intervention; Literacy; Musicianship; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; MUSIC; NERVE POTENTIAL; READING; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 84933673511     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00964     Document Type: Article

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