Recent and past musical activity predicts cognitive aging variability: Direct comparison with general lifestyle activities

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUNE 2012, 2012, Pages

  Hanna Pladdy, Brenda ^a   Gajewski, Byron ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive aging; Life style activities; Modifiable factors of aging; Music; Training induced changes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LIFESTYLE; MUSICIAN; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; RECALL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84933675549     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00198     Document Type: Article

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