Neural dynamics of attending and ignoring in human auditory cortex

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3262-3271

  Chait, Maria ^a   de Cheveigné, Alain ^b   Poeppel, David ^c   Simon, Jonathan Z ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Auditory cortex; Auditory evoked response; Frontal cortex; Gain modulation; M100; MEG; Suppression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 77955842511     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.07.007     Document Type: Article

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