The functional anatomy of sound intensity discrimination

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 6388-6394

  Belin, Pascal ^a   McAdams, Stephen ^b,c   Smith, Bennet ^b   Savel, Sophie ^b,c   Thivard, Lionel ^a   Samson, Séverine ^d   Samson, Yves ^a,e  

^a DIF   (France)

^b Inst Rech Coord Acoustique M   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d UNIV LILLE   (France)

^e PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Attention; Audition; Functional neuroimaging; Human; Intensity discrimination; Performance level; Psychoacoustics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND INTENSITY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0032529546     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-16-06388.1998     Document Type: Article

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