Functional maps of human auditory cortex: Effects of acoustic features and attention

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Woods, David L ^a,b,c   Stecker, G Christopher ^a,d   Rinne, Teemu ^a,e   Herron, Timothy J ^a   Cate, Anthony D ^a   Yund, E William ^a   Liao, Isaac ^c   Kang, Xiaojian ^a,b  

^a VA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINAURAL HEARING; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SOUND INTENSITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; HEARING; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

PRIMATES;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65249171367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005183     Document Type: Article

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