Neuronal representations of distance in human auditory cortex

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 27, 2012, Pages 11019-11024

  Kopčo, Norbert ^a,b,c   Huang, Samantha ^a   Belliveau, John W ^a,d   Raij, Tommi ^a   Tengshe, Chinmayi ^a   Ahveninen, Jyrki ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Neuronal adaptation; Psychophysics; Spatial hearing; What and where pathways

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863605943     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1119496109     Document Type: Article

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