The strength of alpha and beta oscillations parametrically scale with the strength of an illusory auditory percept

NeuroImage

Volumn 88, Issue , 2014, Pages 69-78

  Leske, Sabine ^a   Tse, Ada ^a,f   Oosterhof, Nikolaas N ^b,c,d   Hartmann, Thomas ^b   Müller, Nadia ^b   Keil, Julian ^e   Weisz, Nathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c Dartmouth College   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^f HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Auditory illusion; Auditory perception; Gating by inhibition; Oscillatory activity; Similarity searchlight

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; BETA RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BETA RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892879793     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.11.014     Document Type: Article

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