Functional properties of human auditory cortical fields

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Woods, David L ^a,b,c   Herron, Timothy J ^a   Cate, Anthony D ^a   Yund, E William ^a   Stecker, G Christopher ^a,d   Rinne, Teemu ^a,e   Kang, X ^a,b  

^a VA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Attention; Cortical mapping; Fmri; Primate; Sound intensity; Sound location; Tones; Tonotopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; BINAURAL HEARING; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; TONOTOPY;

EID: 79957906503     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2010.00155     Document Type: Article

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