Auditory selective attention reveals preparatory activity in different cortical regions for selection based on source location and source pitch

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JAN, 2012, Pages

  Lee, Adrian K C ^a,b,c   Rajaram, Siddharth ^c   Xia, Jing ^c   Bharadwaj, Hari ^a,c,d   Larson, Eric ^b   Hämäläinen, Matti S ^a   Shinn Cunningham, Barbara G ^c,d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory attention; Auditory spatial processing; Frontal eye fields; Magnetoencephalography; Pitch processing; Superior temporal sulcus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL SUMMATION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TEMPORAL SUMMATION;

EID: 84875288963     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00190     Document Type: Article

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