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Evangelos Paraskevopoulos1, Anja Kraneburg2, Sibylle Cornelia Herholz3

  • 1School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece; Institute for Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis, University of Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany;

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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PubMed

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MEGcortical plasticityfunctional connectivitymultisensory integrationmusical training

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