Tonotopic representation of missing fundamental complex sounds in the human auditory cortex

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 432-440

  Fujioka, Takako ^a,b,c,e   Ross, Bernhard ^a   Okamoto, Hidehiko ^a,b,d   Takeshima, Yasuyuki ^b   Kakigi, Ryusuke ^b   Pantev, Christo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Harmonic sound; Magnetoencephalography; Tonotopic organization; Virtual pitch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SOUND; TONOTOPY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SOUND; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 0042734457     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02769.x     Document Type: Article

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