Emergence of neural encoding of auditory objects while listening to competing speakers

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

Volumn 109, Issue 29, 2012, Pages 11854-11859

  Ding, Nai ^a   Simon, Jonathan Z ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Phase locking; Reverse correlation; Selective attention; Spectrotemporal response function

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84863915649     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1205381109     Document Type: Article

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