Pre-attentive processing of spectrally complex sounds with asynchronous onsets: An event-related potential study with human subjects

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 227, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 197-200

  Tervaniemi, M ^a   Schroger E ^b   Naatanen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory information; Complex tones; Mismatch negativity; N1; N2b; Pitch perception; Pre perceptual integration; Sensory memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PITCH PERCEPTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0343765831     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00346-7     Document Type: Article

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