Human cortical organization for processing vocalizations indicates representation of harmonic structure as a signal attribute

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2283-2296

  Lewis, James W ^a,b   Talkington, William J ^a   Walker, Nathan A ^a   Spirou, George A ^a   Jajosky, Audrey ^a   Frum, Chris ^a   Brefczynski Lewis, Julie A ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Auditory object; FMRI; Harmonics to noise ratio; Speech; Tonotopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING; RECORDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PITCH PERCEPTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60849103783     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4145-08.2009     Document Type: Article

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