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

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JULY, 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; Lifestyle activities; Modifiable factors of aging; Music; Training induced changes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EDUCATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEISURE; LIFESTYLE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSIC; MUSICIAN; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHONEME; PREDICTION; RECALL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84933678949     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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