Functional brain networks underlying perceptual switching: Auditory streaming and verbal transformations

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1591, 2012, Pages 977-987

  Kashino, Makio ^a,b   Kondo, Hirohito M ^a  

^a NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Auditory scene analysis; Awareness; Catechol O methyltransferase gene polymorphism; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Genotype; Multi stable perception

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUE; BRAIN; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENOTYPE; PERCEPTION; POLYMERIZATION;

EID: 84857584405     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0370     Document Type: Article

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