Relationship between brainstem, cortical and behavioral measures relevant to pitch salience in humans

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2849-2859

  Krishnan, Ananthanarayan ^a   Bidelman, Gavin M ^b   Smalt, Christopher J ^c   Ananthakrishnan, Saradha ^a   Gandour, Jackson T ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory brainstem; Auditory cortex; Cortical pitch response; Frequency following response; Fundamental frequency; Pitch discrimination; Pitch encoding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN STEM; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIODICITY; PITCH; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PITCH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84866050818     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.08.013     Document Type: Article

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