Tonotopic Organization in Human Auditory Cortex Revealed by Progressions of Frequency Sensitivity

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1282-1296

  Talavage, Thomas M ^a,b,c   Sereno, Martin I ^d   Melcher, Jennifer R ^a,e,f   Ledden, Patrick J ^b   Rosen, Bruce R ^b   Dale, Anders M ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; TONOTOPY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 1342280523     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01125.2002     Document Type: Article

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