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    Perceptual Centre correlates in Evoked Potentials


    Soraghan , C., Ward, Tomas E., Villing, Rudi and Timoney, Joseph (2005) Perceptual Centre correlates in Evoked Potentials. In: 3rd European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference EMBEC'05 and IFMBE European Conference on Biomedical Engineering, 2005, Prague, Czech Republic.

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    Abstract

    Perceptual centres (p-centres) are the subjective moments of occurrence of acoustic stimuli. When sounds are perceived in synchrony or are regularly spaced, it is their p-centres which occur synchronously or are isochronous. In order to analyse or model the acoustic features which influence the p-centre, it is necessary to measure p-centres for many stimuli. However there is a problem: it is difficult for an external observer to determine the exact time at which a listener perceives a sound’s occurrence. A possible solution is to find a measurable electrophysiological correlate of the p-centre. In order to investigate this, an experiment is described which compares features of the Auditory Evoked Potential (AEP) response and p-centres for a number of speech and synthetic stimuli. The results indicate a correlation between the latency of the dominant negative peak of the AEP and the p-centre.
    Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
    Keywords: Perceptual Centre; Evoked Potentials;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Science and Engineering > Electronic Engineering
    Item ID: 1369
    Depositing User: Dr Tomas Ward
    Date Deposited: 13 May 2009 11:43
    Refereed: Yes
    URI: https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/1369
    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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