Cortical processing of complex sounds

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 516-521

  Rauschecker, Josef P ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY CORTEX; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOUND; SPEECH; STIMULUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0032142971     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(98)80040-8     Document Type: Article

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