Auditory spatial attention representations in the human cerebral cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 773-784

  Kong, Lingqiang ^a,c   Michalka, Samantha W ^a,c   Rosen, Maya L ^a,c   Sheremata, Summer L ^d   Swisher, Jascha D ^e   Shinn Cunningham, Barbara G ^a,b,c,f   Somers, David C ^a,c,f  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

audition; intraparietal sulcus; multivoxel pattern analysis; spatial maps; visuotopy

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MULTIVOXEL PATTERN ANALYSIS; SPATIAL MAPS; VISUOTOPY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JUDGMENT; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84894267543     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs359     Document Type: Article

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