MEG evidence that the central auditory system simultaneously encodes multiple temporal cues

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1183-1191

  Simpson, Michael I G ^a   Barnes, Gareth R ^b   Johnson, Sam R ^a   Hillebrand, Arjan ^c   Singh, Krish D ^d   Green, Gary G R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amplitude modulation; Human; Magnetoencephalography; Modulation envelope; Steady state response

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WAVEFORM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70349212547     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06900.x     Document Type: Article

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