Separate neural processing of timbre dimensions in auditory sensory memory

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1959-1972

  Caclin, Anne ^a,b,c,d   Brattico, Elvira ^e,f   Tervaniemi, Mari ^e,f   Näätänen, Risto ^e,f   Morlet, Dominique ^b,c,d   Giard, Marie Hélène ^b,c,d   McAdams, Stephen ^a,g  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c Institut Federatif des Neurosciences   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^f Helsinki Brain Research Center   (Finland)

^g MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOUDNESS; MALE; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PITCH DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 33845508792     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2006.18.12.1959     Document Type: Article

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