Pitch processing sites in the human auditory brain

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 576-585

  Hall, Deborah A ^a   Plack, Christopher J ^b  

^a MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lateral Heschl's gyrus; Perceptual invariance; Planum temporale

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PITCH; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59749102618     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn108     Document Type: Article

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