Assessing the influence of scanner background noise on auditory processing. I. An fMRI study comparing three experimental designs with varying degrees of scanner noise

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 703-720

  Gaab, Nadine ^a,b   Gabrieli, John D E ^a   Glover, Gary H ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Clustered volume acquisition; fMRI; Scanner background noise; Sparse temporal sampling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTIFACTS; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NOISE; REACTION TIME; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 33847402377     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20298     Document Type: Article

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