Competing streams at the cocktail party: Exploring the mechanisms of attention and temporal integration

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 36, 2010, Pages 12084-12093

  Xiang, Juanjuan ^a   Simon, Jonathan ^b   Elhilali, Mounya ^c  

^a Starkey Laboratories Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Whiting School of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; STEADY STATE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND; STATISTICS; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77956604754     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0827-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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