Functional specificity in the right human auditory cortex for perceiving pitch direction

Brain

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 155-163

  Johnsrude, Ingrid S ^a   Penhune, Virginia B ^b   Zatorre, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Hearing; Hemispheric specialization; Music; Pitch

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0033981320     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/123.1.155     Document Type: Article

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