Neural sensitivity to human voices: ERP evidence of task and attentional influences

Psychophysiology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 291-305

  Levy, Daniel A ^a   Granot, Roni ^a   Bentin, Shlomo ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Auditory processing; ERPs; Human voice perception; Novelty P3; VSR

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOICE;

EID: 12244296734     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-8986.00031     Document Type: Article

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