Parallel processing in the auditory cortex of primates

Audiology and Neuro-Otology

Volumn 3, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 86-103

  Rauschecker, Josef P ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Auditory space; Communication sounds; Human; Macaque monkey; Neuroanatomy; Neuroimaging; Neurophysiology; Speech processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACACA; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; NERVE CELL; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; MACACA MULATTA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NOISE; PRIMATES; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0031899045     PISSN: 14203030     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000013784     Document Type: Article

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