Preattentive auditory context effects

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 57-77

  Winkler, István ^a,b,e   Sussman, Elyse ^c   Tervaniemi, Mari ^b   Horváth, János ^a   Ritter, Walter ^d   Näätänen, Risto ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY CORTEX; CONTEXTUAL PROCESSING; CONTEXTUAL TONE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; ADOLESCENT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFERENCE VALUE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0042697564     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/CABN.3.1.57     Document Type: Article

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