Object representation in the human auditory system

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 625-634

  Winkler, István ^a   Van Zuijen, Titia L ^b   Sussman, Elyse ^c   Horváth, János ^a   Näätänen, Risto ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory sensory memory; Auditory stream segregation; Event related potentials; Implicit memory; Spectro temporal processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY MEMORY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 33746210781     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.04925.x     Document Type: Article

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