Cortical processing of complex tone stimuli: Mismatch negativity at the end of a period of rapid pitch modulation

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 295-306

  Vaz Pato, Maria ^a   Jones, Stephen J ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audition; Auditory cortex; Auditory evoked potential; Complex tone; Echoic memory; Mismatch negativity; Music perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MUSIC; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; PERIODICITY; PITCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032961250     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(98)00032-9     Document Type: Article

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