Amplitopicity of the human auditory cortex: An fMRI study

NeuroImage

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 710-718

  Bilecen, Deniz ^a   Seifritz, Erich ^a   Scheffler, Klaus ^b   Henning, Jürgen ^b   Schulte, Anja Carina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; fMRI; Functional imaging; Intensity representation; Sine tone; Transverse temporal gyrus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND PRESSURE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TONOTOPY;

EID: 0036420592     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-8119(02)91133-X     Document Type: Article

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