Cortical alpha oscillations as a tool for auditory selective inhibition

Listening to speech is often demanding because of signal degradations and the presence of distracting sounds (i.e., noise). The question how the brain achieves the task of extracting only relevant information from the mixture of sounds reaching the ear (i.e., cocktail party problem) is still open. I...

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Main Authors: Antje eStrauß, Malte eWöstmann, Jonas eObleser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00350/full