Auditory evoked potentials to abrupt pitch and timbre change of complex tones: Electrophysiological evidence of 'streaming'?

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 131-142

  Jones, S J ^a   Longe, O ^a   Vaz Pato, M ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory; Auditory object formation; Evoked potentials; Pitch and timbre discrimination; Streaming

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001163132     PISSN: 00134694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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