Human cortical activity during streaming without spectral cues suggests a general neural substrate for auditory stream segregation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 48, 2007, Pages 13074-13081

  Gutschalk, Alexander ^a,b,c   Oxenham, Andrew J ^d   Micheyl, Christophe ^d   Wilson, E Courtenay ^e   Melcher, Jennifer R ^a,b,e  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Auditory cortex; fMRI; MEG; Scene analysis; Stream segregation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; OXYGEN; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 36849014887     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2299-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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