Sound processing hierarchy within human auditory cortex

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1855-1863

  Okamoto, Hidehiko ^a   Stracke, Henning ^a   Bermudez, Patrick ^a,b,c   Pantev, Christo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c BRAMS Laboratory   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957642539     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21521     Document Type: Article

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