Processing of natural sounds in human auditory cortex: Tonotopy, spectral tuning, and relation to voice sensitivity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 41, 2012, Pages 14205-14216

  Moerel, Michelle ^a   De Martino, Federico ^a   Formisano, Elia ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TONOTOPY; TUNING WIDTH; VOCAL CORD;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84867245661     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1388-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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