Neural Correlates of Sound Localization in Complex Acoustic Environments

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Zündorf, Ida C ^a   Lewald, Jörg ^b,c   Karnath, Hans Otto ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR INSULA; ARTICLE; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; SOUND DETECTION; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL GYRUS; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SOUND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877767471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064259     Document Type: Article

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