Effects of feature-selective attention on auditory pattern and location processing

NeuroImage

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 69-79

  Altmann, Christian F ^a   Henning, Michaela ^a   Döring, Maria Katharina ^a   Kaiser, Jochen ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complex sounds; fMRI adaptation; Natural sounds; Sound localization; Sound recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOUND LOCALIZATION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 42649087090     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.02.013     Document Type: Article

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