The path to success in auditory spatial discrimination: Electrical neuroimaging responses within the supratemporal plane predict performance outcome

NeuroImage

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 493-503

  Spierer, Lucas ^a   Murray, Micah M ^a,b   Tardif, Eric ^a   Clarke, Stephanie ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b University of Lausanne   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Auditory evoked potential (AEP); Electrical brain imaging; Electroencephalography (EEG); Sound localization; Spatial discrimination

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN ELECTRODE; SOUND DETECTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 44149106834     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.02.038     Document Type: Article

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