Harmonic partials facilitate pitch discrimination in humans: Electrophysiological and behavioral evidence

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 279, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 29-32

  Tervaniemi, M ^a   Ilvonen, T ^a   Sinkkonen, J ^a   Kujala, A ^a   Alho, K ^a   Huotilainen, M ^a   Naatanen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Auditory event related potentials; Automatic processing; Complex sounds; Frequency discrimination; Human; Mismatch negativity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BEHAVIOR; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACILITATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOUND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033985511     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00941-6     Document Type: Article

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