Selective attention to sound location or pitch studied with event-related brain potentials and magnetic fields

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3329-3341

  Degerman, Alexander ^a,b   Rinne, Teemu ^a   Särkkä, Anna Kaisa ^a   Salmi, Juha ^a   Alho, Kimmo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Attention; Auditory cortex; EEG; Human; MEG

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SOUND DETECTION; STIMULUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PITCH PERCEPTION; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 45349087004     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06286.x     Document Type: Article

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