Neural correlates of timbre change in harmonic sounds

NeuroImage

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1742-1754

  Menon, V ^a   Levitin, D J ^b   Smith, B K ^c   Lembke, A ^a   Krasnow, B D ^a   Glazer, D ^a   Glover, G H ^a   McAdams, S ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c IRCAM   (France)

Author keywords

FMRI; Middle temporal gyrus; Superior temporal gyrus; Superior temporal sulcus; Temporal lobe; Timbre

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SOUND; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIMBRE;

EID: 0036935070     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nimg.2002.1295     Document Type: Article

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