Early processing of pitch in the human auditory system

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2972-2978

  Alho, Kimmo ^a,b   Grimm, Sabine ^a   Mateo León, Sabina ^a   Costa Faidella, Jordi ^a   Escera, Carles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Auditory evoked potential; Middle latency response; Mismatch negativity; Missing fundamental; N1

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN REGION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MIDDLE LATENCY AUDITORY EVOKED RESPONSE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; RESPONSE TIME; SECONDARY AUDITORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION; SOUND;

EID: 84867022489     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08219.x     Document Type: Article

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