Cortical representation of natural complex sounds: Effects of acoustic features and auditory object category

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 7604-7612

  Leaver, Amber M ^a   Rauschecker, Josef P ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SOUND; SPEECH; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOICE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953182955     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0296-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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