Mapping the tonotopic organization in human auditory cortex with minimally salient acoustic stimulation

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2024-2038

  Langers, Dave R M ^a   Van Dijk, Pim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

auditory cortex; cortical mapping; functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); humans; tonotopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LOUDNESS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TONOTOPY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864945370     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr282     Document Type: Article

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