Directed interactions between auditory and superior temporal cortices and their role in sensory integration

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue MAY, 2009, Pages

  Kayser, Christoph ^a   Logothetis, Nikos K ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auto regressive model; Cross modal; Directed transfer function; Granger causality; Local field potential; Multisensory; Superior temporal sulcus

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349530643     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.07.007.2009     Document Type: Article

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