Dissociation of Detection and Discrimination of Pure Tones following Bilateral Lesions of Auditory Cortex

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Dykstra, Andrew R ^a,b   Koh, Christine K ^b,c   Braida, Louis D ^a,b,c   Tramo, Mark Jude ^a,b,c  

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

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOUDNESS; MALE; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SENSORY EVALUATION; SOUND INTENSITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN MAPPING; EAR; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; NEURONS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PITCH PERCEPTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

CERCOPITHECIDAE;

EID: 84866050052     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044602     Document Type: Article

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