Quantifying attentional modulation of auditory-evoked cortical responses from single-trial electroencephalography

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue APR 2013, 2013, Pages

  Choi, Inyong ^a   Rajaram, Siddharth ^a   Varghese, Lenny A ^a,b   Shinn Cunningham, Barbara G ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory attention; Auditory event related potentials; Brain computer interfaces; Single trial classification; Spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; AUDITORY ORIENTATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SOUND DETECTION; WAVEFORM;

EID: 85043062426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00115     Document Type: Article

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