The sound of consciousness: Neural underpinnings of auditory perception

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 46, 2011, Pages 16611-16618

  Brancucci, Alfredo ^a   Franciotti, Raffaella ^a   D'Anselmo, Anita ^a   della Penna, Stefania ^a   Tommasi, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; SOUND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81255143018     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3949-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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