Sustained BOLD and theta activity in auditory cortex are related to slow stimulus fluctuations rather than to pitch

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 107, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3458-3467

  Steinmann, Iris ^a   Gutschalk, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory perception; Click trains; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Iterated rippled noise; Magnetoencephalography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BOLD SIGNAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THETA RHYTHM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERIOR COLLICULI; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NOISE; OXYGEN; PITCH PERCEPTION; THETA RHYTHM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862534259     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01105.2011     Document Type: Article

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