Tuning in to sound: Frequency-selective attentional filter in human primary auditory cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1858-1863

  Da Costa, Sandra ^a   van der Zwaag, Wietske ^b   Miller, Lee M ^c   Clarke, Stephanie ^a   Saenz, Melissa ^a,d  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b University of Lausanne   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BOLD SIGNAL; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TONOTOPY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 84873038972     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4405-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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