Preattentive processing of auditory spatial information in humans

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 242, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 49-52

  Winkler, István ^a,b   Tervaniemi, Mari ^b   Schröger, Erich ^c   Wolff, Christian ^d   Näätänen, Risto ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory spatial processing; Auditory system; Event related potentials (ERP); Free field stimulation; Mismatch negativity (MMN); P3a; Passive attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032488933     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00022-6     Document Type: Article

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