Serial and parallel processing in the primate auditory cortex revisited

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 206, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-7

  Recanzone, Gregg H ^a   Cohen, Yale E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dual stream processing; Macaque; Parallel processing; Primate auditory cortex; Serial

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPECIES COMPARISON; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIMATES; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 70350200871     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.08.015     Document Type: Review

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