Spectrotemporal resolution tradeoff in auditory processing as revealed by human auditory brainstem responses and psychophysical indices

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 572, Issue , 2014, Pages 53-57

  Bidelman, Gavin M ^a   Syed Khaja, Ameenuddin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory brainstem response (ABR); Auditory evoked potentials (AEPs); Cochlear filtering; Pitch discrimination; Temporal resolution; Time frequency analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY BRAINSTEM RESPONSE; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SIMULTANEOUS MASKING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TUNING CURVE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901945714     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2014.04.037     Document Type: Article

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