Correlates of perceptual awareness in human primary auditory cortex revealed by an informational masking experiment

NeuroImage

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 62-69

  Wiegand, Katrin ^a   Gutschalk, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Conscious auditory processing; Heschl's gyrus; Informational masking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BOLD SIGNAL; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATIONAL MASKING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AWARENESS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; OXYGEN; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859029749     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.02.067     Document Type: Article

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