A population rate code of auditory space in the human cortex

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Salminen, Nelli H ^a,b   May, Patrick J C ^a,b   Alku, Paavo ^a   Tiitinen, Hannu ^a,b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY SYSTEM; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; SOUND DETECTION; SPATIAL SUMMATION; TUNING CURVE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

PRIMATES;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEURONS; SOUND; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 70449555924     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007600     Document Type: Article

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