Neural substrate of concurrent sound perception: Direct electrophysiological recordings from human auditory cortex

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue MAR, 2008, Pages

  Bidet Caulet, Aurélie ^a,b,c,f   Fischer, Catherine ^a,b,c,d   Bauchet, Françoise ^a,b,c,e   Aguera, Pierre Emmanuel ^a,b,c   Bertrand, Olivier ^a,b,c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b Institut Federatif des Neurosciences   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^d HÔPITAL NEUROLOGIQUE   (France)

^e CERMEP IMAGERIE DU VIVANT   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; EEG; Event related; Gamma; Human; Steady state; Stream segregation

Indexed keywords

EID: 69549092487     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.09.005.2007     Document Type: Article

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