The cognitive auditory cortex: Task-specificity of stimulus representations

Hearing Research

Volumn 229, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 213-224

  Scheich, Henning ^a   Brechmann, André ^a   Brosch, Michael ^a   Budinger, Eike ^a,b   Ohl, Frank W ^a,b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Behaviour; Categorization; Discrimination; Functional magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MEMORY; MONKEY; NEOCORTEX; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COGNITION; GERBILLINAE; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 34250325394     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2007.01.025     Document Type: Article

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