Hearing illusory sounds in noise: Sensory-perceptual transformations in primary auditory cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 46, 2007, Pages 12684-12689

  Riecke, Lars ^a   Van Opstal, A John ^b   Goebel, Rainer ^a   Formisano, Elia ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; fMRI; Hearing; Illusion; Object recognition; Perceptual grouping

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETRIC TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM; SOUND;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NOISE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS;

EID: 36248954516     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2713-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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