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| Title: | Tracking Sound Dynamics in Human Auditory Cortex: New macroscopic perspectives from MEG |
| Authors: | Luo, Huan |
| Advisors: | Poeppel, David |
| Department/Program: | Neuroscience and Cognitive Science |
| Type: | Dissertation |
| Sponsors: | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) |
| Keywords: | Biology, Neuroscience (0317) |
| Issue Date: | 7-Feb-2007 |
| Abstract: | Both the external world and our internal world are full of changing activities , and the question of how these two dynamic systems are linked constitutes the most intriguing and fundamental question in neuroscience and cognitive science. This study specifically investigates the processing and representation of sound dynamic information in human auditory cortex using magnetoencephalography (MEG), a non-invasive brain imaging technique whose high temporal resolution (on the order of ~1ms) makes it an appropriate tool for studying the neural correlates of dynamic auditory information. The other goal of this study is to understand the essence of the macroscopic activities reflected in non-invasive brain imaging experiments, specifically focusing on MEG. Invasive single-cell recordings in animals have yielded a large amount of information about how the brain works at a microscopic level. However, there still exist large gaps in our understanding of the relationship between the activities re... |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/6692 |
| Appears in Collections: | Biology Theses and Dissertations
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