Effects of spectral complexity and sound duration on automatic complex-sound pitch processing in humans - A mismatch negativity study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 290, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 66-70

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory event related potentials; Automatic processing; Complex sounds; Frequency discrimination; Human; Mismatch negativity; P3a

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; VOLUNTEER; WAVEFORM;

ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HUMANS; MALE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SOUND; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 0343953616     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01290-8     Document Type: Article

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