Neural response correlates of detection of monaurally and binaurally created pitches in humans

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 835-848

  Chait, Maria ^a,d   Poeppel, David ^a,b   Simon, Jonathan Z ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d 1401 Marie Mount Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Auditory evoked response; Binaural system; Dichotic pitch; M100; MEG

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BEHAVIOR; BINAURAL HEARING; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; HEARING; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MONAURAL HEARING; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PITCH PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33646866962     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhj027     Document Type: Article

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