Auditory spatial tuning in late-onset blindness in humans

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 149-157

  Fieger, Anne ^a,b   Röder, Brigitte ^c   Teder Sälejärvi, Wolfgang ^d   Hillyard, Steven A ^d   Neville, Helen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BLINDNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33645740286     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2006.18.2.149     Document Type: Article

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