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SUBMITTER: Groussard M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2950159 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20101005 10
The development of musical skills by musicians results in specific structural and functional modifications in the brain. Surprisingly, no functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study has investigated the impact of musical training on brain function during long-term memory retrieval, a faculty particularly important in music. Thus, using fMRI, we examined for the first time this process during a musical familiarity task (i.e., semantic memory for music). Musical expertise induced supplement ...[more]