Neural correlates of auditory perceptual awareness under informational masking.

Our ability to detect target sounds in complex acoustic backgrounds is often limited not by the ear's resolution, but by the brain's information-processing capacity. The neural mechanisms and loci of this "informational masking" are unknown. We combined magnetoencephalography wit...

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Main Authors: Alexander Gutschalk, Christophe Micheyl, Andrew J Oxenham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-06-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2422852?pdf=render