Functional specialization of the human auditory cortex in processing phonetic and musical sounds: A magnetoencephalographic (MEG) study

NeuroImage

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 330-336

  Tervaniemi, M ^a   Kujala, A ^a   Alho, K ^a   Virtanen, J ^a   Ilmoniemi, R J ^b   Naatanen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Complex tones; Magnetoencephalography (MEG); Mismatch negativity (MMN); MMNm; Musical information; P1m; Phonetic information; Preattentive processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; BINAURAL HEARING; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MONAURAL HEARING; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032771009     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nimg.1999.0405     Document Type: Article

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