A generalized mechanism for perception of pitch patterns

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 454-459

  Loui, Psyche ^a,c   Wu, Elaine H ^a   Wessel, David L ^a   Knight, Robert T ^a,b  

^a Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Auditory perception; Event related potentials; Mismatch negativity (MMN); Music; Pattern processing; Probability learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; MUSIC; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58849111695     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4503-08.2009     Document Type: Article

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