Does Rapid Auditory Stimulation Accelerate an Internal Pacemaker? Don't Bet on It

Timing and Time Perception

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 65-76

  Repp, Bruno H ^a   Mendlowitz, Hannah B ^b   Hove, Michael J ^c  

^a HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

arousal; internal clock; pacemaker; rapid auditory stimulation; Temporal discrimination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892154801     PISSN: 2213445X     EISSN: 22134468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/22134468-00002001     Document Type: Article

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