Auditory grouping mechanisms reflect a sound's relative position in a sequence

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUNE 2012, 2012, Pages

  Hill, Kevin T ^a,b   Bishop, Christopher W ^b   Miller, Lee M ^b  

^a VIRGINIA TECH CARILION SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Bistable; EEG; Grouping; Perception; Streaming

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY ORIENTATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH;

EID: 84864186008     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00158     Document Type: Article

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