Cortical oscillations in auditory perception and speech: Evidence for two temporal windows in human auditory cortex

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue MAY, 2012, Pages

  Luo, Huan ^a   Poeppel, David ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetoencephalography; MEG; Phase; Phase coherence; Timing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867072532     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00170     Document Type: Article

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