Neural correlates of auditory distraction revealed in theta-band EEG

NeuroReport

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 240-245

  Ponjavic Conte, Karla D ^a   Dowdall, Jarrod R ^b   Hambrook, Dillon A ^a   Luczak, Artur ^a   Tata, Matthew S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

attention; auditory perception; distraction; EEG; EEG phase desynchronization; event related potentials; N1; phase locking; power; theta

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; THETA RHYTHM; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857170012     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: 1473558X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3283505ac6     Document Type: Article

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