Concurrent encoding of frequency and amplitude modulation in human auditory cortex: Encoding transition

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3473-3485

  Luo, Huan ^a,b,d   Wang, Yadong ^a,b   Poeppel, David ^a,b   Simon, Jonathan Z ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PITCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 37549060359     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00342.2007     Document Type: Article

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