Electrophysiological Evidence of a Sound Localizing Binaural Subsystem in the Human Auditory Brainstem

Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 235-244

  Pratt, Hillel ^a   Polyakov, Andrey ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

auditory brainstem evoked potentials; binaural interaction; masking; sound localization; spatio topic organization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BINAURAL HEARING; CLICK; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PONS; SOUND DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; BRAIN STEM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; HUMANS; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0029836724     PISSN: 07926855     EISSN: 21910286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JBCPP.1996.7.3.235     Document Type: Article

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