Middle latency auditory-evoked fields reflect psychoacoustic gap detection thresholds in human listeners

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2239-2247

  Rupp, André ^a   Gutschalk, Alexander ^a   Uppenkamp, Stefan ^b   Scherg, Michael ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c MEGIS Software GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LISTENING; MALE; MIDDLE LATENCY EVOKED AUDITORY REPONSE; NOISE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOACOUSTIC GAP; PSYCHOASCOUSTIC THRESHOLD; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION; WAVEFORM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 4644261780     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00163.2004     Document Type: Article

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