Sensitivity to temporal modulation rate and spectral bandwidth in the human auditory system: fMRI evidence

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 107, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2042-2056

  Overath, Tobias ^a   Zhang, Yue ^a   Sanes, Dan H ^a   Poeppel, David ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortex; Hierarchical organization; Sinusoidal amplitude modulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NOISE; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TIME PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859776120     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00308.2011     Document Type: Article

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