When and where of auditory spatial processing in cortex: A novel approach using electrotomography

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Lewald, Jörg ^a,b   Getzmann, Stephan ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SPATIAL PROCESSING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW RESOLUTION BRAIN ELECTROMAGNETIC TOMOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; SOUND DETECTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN MAPPING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SOUND LOCALIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052899836     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025146     Document Type: Article

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