Evidence for opponent-channel coding of interaural time differences in human auditory cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1997-2007

  Magezi, David A ^a   Krumbholz, Katrin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NERVE CELL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERAURAL TIME DISCRIMINATION; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957831565     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00424.2009     Document Type: Article

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