Spatial organization of frequency preference and selectivity in the human inferior colliculus

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  De Martino, Federico ^a,b   Moerel, Michelle ^a   Van De Moortele, Pierre Francois ^b   Ugurbil, Kamil ^b   Goebel, Rainer ^a   Yacoub, Essa ^b   Formisano, Elia ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; BRAIN; MAGNETIC FIELD; NEUROLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CELL CULTURE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; SUBCORTEX; ULTRAHIGH MAGNETIC FIELD; HEARING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND;

AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERIOR COLLICULI; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SOUND;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84879179395     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2379     Document Type: Article

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