The contribution of frequency-specific activity to hierarchical information processing in the human auditory cortex

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Fontolan, L ^a   Morillon, B ^b   Liegeois Chauvel, C ^c   Giraud, Anne Lise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEARING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; OPTIMIZATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION AUDITORY CORTEX; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; AUDITORY CORTEX; BOTTOM UP PROCESSING; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; DEPTH ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MIDDLE AGED; OSCILLATION; PERIODICITY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOP DOWN PROCESSING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HEARING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN WAVES; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84907322153     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5694     Document Type: Article

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