Dynamics of cortical responses to tone pairs in relation to task difficulty: A meg study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1592-1604

  Nahum, Mor ^a   Renvall, Hanna ^b   Ahissar, Merav ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Auditory; Frequency discrimination; Magnetoencephalography; N100m; Processing field; Task difficulty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DYNAMICS; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REACTION TIME; SOUND LOCALIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66249096321     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20629     Document Type: Article

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