Attention-driven auditory cortex short-term plasticity helps segregate relevant sounds from noise

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 4182-4187

  Ahveninen, Jyrki ^a   Hämäläinen, Matti ^a,b   Jääskeläinen, Iiro P ^c   Ahlfors, Seppo P ^a,b   Huang, Samantha ^a   Lina, Fa Hsuan ^a,d   Raij, Tommi ^a   Sams, Mikko ^c   Vasios, Christos E ^a   Belliveau, John W ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Auditory scene analysis; Cocktail party phenomenon; Event related potentials; Negative difference; Processing negativity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROIMAGING; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; WHITE NOISE;

ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NOISE;

EID: 79952755323     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1016134108     Document Type: Article

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