Selective attention increases both gain and feature selectivity of the human auditory cortex

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Kauramäki, Jaakko ^a   Jääskeläinen, Liro P ^a   Sams, Mikko ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTEER; WHITE NOISE; ATTENTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS;

EID: 36049010069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000909     Document Type: Article

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