Activity associated with stream segregation in human auditory cortex is similar for spatial and pitch cues

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2863-2873

  Schadwinkel, Stefan ^a   Gutschalk, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

auditory scene analysis; functional magnetic resonance imaging; ITD; magnetoencephalography; stream segregation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS;

ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78349301612     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq037     Document Type: Article

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