Binaural fusion and the representation of virtual pitch in the human auditory cortex

Hearing Research

Volumn 100, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 164-170

  Pantev, Christo ^a   Elbert, Thomas ^b   Ross, Bernhard ^a   Eulitz, Carsten ^a   Terhardt, Ernst ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

auditory evoked magnetic field; binaural fusion; hearing; human auditory cortex; magnetoencephalography; pitch perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BINAURAL HEARING; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030272626     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-5955(96)00124-4     Document Type: Article

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