Evoked potentials of the human auditory cortex: sensitive to the harmonic series?
Cortically generated auditory evoked potentials (N1 and P2) were recorded to frequency changes of harmonic and inharmonic complex tones comprising four sinusoidal components. The responses obtained when the frequencies suddenly became stationary after a period of 16/s changes were significantly shorter in latency when the frequencies were harmonically related, possibly implying a process of periodicity detection.
Jones
Steve J
SJ
Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London WC1N 3BG, UK. sjjones@ion.ucl.ac.uk
D000328:Adult; D001303:Auditory Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009146:Music; D010898:Pitch Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology