Right hemispheric contributions to fine auditory temporal discriminations: High-density electrical mapping of the duration mismatch negativity (MMN)

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue APR, 2009, Pages

  De Sanctis, Pierfilippo ^a,b   Molholm, Sophie ^a,b   Shpaner, Marina ^a,b   Ritter, Walter ^a,b   Foxe, John J ^a,b  

^a NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory temporal resolution; Event related potentials; Hemispheric asymmetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952265813     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.07.005.2009     Document Type: Article

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