Local and global auditory processing: Behavioral and ERP evidence

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1172-1186

  Sanders, Lisa D ^a   Poeppel, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Congruency; Event related potential; Lateralization; Pitch; Selective attention; Temporal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PITCH; REACTION TIME; SOUND; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846098885     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.10.010     Document Type: Article

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