Task-specific modulation of human auditory evoked response in a delayed-match-to-sample task

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue MAY, 2011, Pages

  Rong, Feng ^a,b   Holroyd, Tom ^c   Husain, Fatima T ^a   Contreras Vidal, Jose L ^b   Horwitz, Barry ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory evoked response; Cognitive modulation; Functional interaction; MEG; Task specificity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867077747     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00085     Document Type: Article

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