The accuracy of sound duration representation in the human brain determines the accuracy of behavioural perception

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 2570-2574

  Amenedo, Elena ^a   Escera, Carles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Audition; Detectability index d'; Event related potentials; Humans; Mismatch negativity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033930746     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2000.00114.x     Document Type: Article

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