Neuromagnetic evidence for a pitch processing center in Heschl's gyrus

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 765-772

  Krumbholz, Katrin ^a,b,c   Patterson, R D ^b   Seither Preisler, A ^a   Lammertmann, C ^a   Lutkenhoner B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLICK; HEARING; HESCHL GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; WAVEFORM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NOISE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PITCH PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0038000642     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/13.7.765     Document Type: Article

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