The what, where and how of auditory-object perception

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 693-707

  Bizley, Jennifer K ^a   Cohen, Yale E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY OBJECT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; HEARING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MUSIC; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOUND;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HUMANS;

EID: 84884551429     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3565     Document Type: Review

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