[HTML][HTML] Musical training as a framework for brain plasticity: behavior, function, and structure

SC Herholz, RJ Zatorre - Neuron, 2012 - cell.com
Musical training has emerged as a useful framework for the investigation of training-related
plasticity in the human brain. Learning to play an instrument is a highly complex task that …

The mismatch negativity (MMN) in basic research of central auditory processing: a review

R Näätänen, P Paavilainen, T Rinne, K Alho - Clinical neurophysiology, 2007 - Elsevier
In the present article, the basic research using the mismatch negativity (MMN) and
analogous results obtained by using the magnetoencephalography (MEG) and other brain …

Toward a neural basis of music perception–a review and updated model

S Koelsch - Frontier in Psychology, 2011 - frontiersin.org
Music perception involves acoustic analysis, auditory memory, auditory scene analysis,
processing of interval relations, of musical syntax and semantics, and activation of (pre) …

Musical training influences linguistic abilities in 8-year-old children: more evidence for brain plasticity

S Moreno, C Marques, A Santos, M Santos… - Cerebral …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
We conducted a longitudinal study with 32 nonmusician children over 9 months to determine
1) whether functional differences between musician and nonmusician children reflect …

The mismatch negativity (MMN)–a unique window to disturbed central auditory processing in ageing and different clinical conditions

R Näätänen, T Kujala, C Escera, T Baldeweg… - Clinical …, 2012 - Elsevier
In this article, we review clinical research using the mismatch negativity (MMN), a change-
detection response of the brain elicited even in the absence of attention or behavioural task …

Morphology of Heschl's gyrus reflects enhanced activation in the auditory cortex of musicians

P Schneider, M Scherg, HG Dosch, HJ Specht… - Nature …, 2002 - nature.com
Using magnetoencephalography (MEG), we compared the processing of sinusoidal tones in
the auditory cortex of 12 non-musicians, 12 professional musicians and 13 amateur …

Mismatch negativity (MMN), the deviance‐elicited auditory deflection, explained

PJC May, H Tiitinen - Psychophysiology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The current review constitutes the first comprehensive look at the possibility that the
mismatch negativity (MMN, the deflection of the auditory ERP/ERF elicited by stimulus …

Auditory attention—focusing the searchlight on sound

JB Fritz, M Elhilali, SV David, SA Shamma - Current opinion in …, 2007 - Elsevier
Some fifty years after the first physiological studies of auditory attention, the field is now
ripening, with exciting recent insights into the psychophysics, psychology, and neural basis …

The perception of speech sounds by the human brain as reflected by the mismatch negativity (MMN) and its magnetic equivalent (MMNm)

R Näätänen - Psychophysiology, 2001 - cambridge.org
The present article outlines the contribution of the mismatch negativity (MMN), and its
magnetic equivalent MMNm, to our understanding of the perception of speech sounds in the …

The mismatch negativity in cognitive and clinical neuroscience: theoretical and methodological considerations

T Kujala, M Tervaniemi, E Schröger - Biological psychology, 2007 - Elsevier
Mismatch negativity (MMN) component of the event-related brain potentials has become
popular in cognitive and clinical brain research during the recent years. It is an early …