Binding symbols and sounds: Evidence from event-related oscillatory gamma-band activity

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2696-2702

  Widmann, Andreas ^a   Gruber, Thomas ^a   Kujala, Teija ^b,c   Tervaniemi, Mari ^b,c   Schröger, Erich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c Helsinki Brain Research Center   (Finland)

Author keywords

Audiovisual integration; Audition; Event related brain potentials; Gamma band oscillatory activity; Neural model; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BINDING AFFINITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTEGRATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYMBOLISM; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 35148828622     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhl178     Document Type: Article

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