Conjugating time and frequency: Hemispheric specialization, acoustic uncertainty, and the mustached bat

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue APR, 2015, Pages

  Washington, Stuart D ^a,b   Tillinghast, John S ^c,d  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic uncertainty; Echolocation; Heisenberg Gabor limit; Hemispheric specialization; Music; Mustached bats; Spectral temporal; Speech

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BAT; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONFLICT; ECHOLOCATION; FACILITATION; FREQUENCY; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LANGUAGE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PHONETICS; PRESSURE; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECIALIZATION; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84928682174     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00143     Document Type: Article

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