Central auditory processing of noncontextual consonance in music: An evoked potential study

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3781-3787

  Itoh, Kosuke ^a   Suwazono, Shugo ^a,b   Nakada, Tsutomu ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY PROCESSING; AUDITORY SYSTEMS; CORTICAL ACTIVITY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; LOW LEVEL; MISTUNED; NEURAL ACTIVITY; NEURAL MECHANISMS; RANDOM SEQUENCE;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MUSIC; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MUSIC; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952147404     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3500685     Document Type: Article

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