Auditory cortex encodes the perceptual interpretation of ambiguous sound

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1715-1720

  Kilian Hütten, Niclas ^a   Valente, Giancarlo ^a   Vroomen, Jean ^b   Formisano, Elia ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOGIC; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHONEME; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSATION; SOUND; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHONETICS; SOUND; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79551540236     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4572-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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