Breaking the wave: Effects of attention and learning on concurrent sound perception

Hearing Research

Volumn 229, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 225-236

  Alain, Claude ^a  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Auditory; ERP; Perception; Speech; Streaming

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING; HUMAN; LEARNING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PERCEPTION; PERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SPEECH; THALAMUS; TRAINING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVE NET; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 34250372457     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2007.01.011     Document Type: Article

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