Neuromagnetic auditory cortex responses to duration and pitch changes in tones: Cross-linguistic comparisons of human subjects in directions of acoustic changes

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 331, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 138-142

  Inouchi, Mayako ^a   Kubota, Mikio ^b,c   Ferrari, Paul ^b   Roberts, Timothy P L ^b,d  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory comprehension; Direction of acoustic changes; Duration change; Magnetic mismatch field; Magnetoencephalography; Pitch change; Tone

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEMISPHERE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MEDICAL RECORD; NONHUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNTHESIS;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITCH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037064315     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)00862-5     Document Type: Article

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