Visual short-term memory load affects sensory processing of irrelevant sounds in human auditory cortex

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 358-367

  Valtonen, Jussi ^a   May, Patrick ^a,b   Mäkinen, Ville ^a,b   Tiitinen, Hannu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Human auditory cortex; Irrelevant sound effect; MEG; N1m; Sensory processing, Attention; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOUND; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0038104372     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(03)00137-X     Document Type: Article

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