Selective tuning of the left and right auditory cortices during spatially directed attention

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 335-341

  Alho, Kimmo ^a   Medvedev, Sviatoslav V ^b   Pakhomov, Sergei V ^b   Roudas, Marina S ^b   Tervaniemi, Mari ^a   Reinikainen, Kalevi ^a   Zeffiro, Thomas ^c   Näätänen, Risto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^c Sensor Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Auditory cortex; Human; Positron emission tomography (PET); Regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0032911708     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(98)00036-6     Document Type: Article

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