Mechanisms underlying selective neuronal tracking of attended speech at a "cocktail party"

Neuron

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 980-991

  Zion Golumbic, Elana M ^a,b   Ding, Nai ^c,d   Bickel, Stephan ^e,f   Lakatos, Peter ^b   Schevon, Catherine A ^a   McKhann, Guy M ^a   Goodman, Robert R ^a   Emerson, Ronald ^a   Mehta, Ashesh D ^e,f   Simon, Jonathan Z ^c,d   Poeppel, David ^g   Schroeder, Charles E ^a,b  

^a Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^b NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d Bldg 142   (United States)

^e Hofstra University School of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^f DONALD AND BARBARA ZUCKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT HOFSTRA NORTHWELL   (United States)

^g NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; ALGORITHM; ATTENTION; BRAIN; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSORY GATING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ATTENTION; BRAIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; NEURONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSORY GATING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84876443182     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.12.037     Document Type: Article

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