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SUBMITTER: Hickok G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4504793 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hickok Gregory G Farahbod Haleh H Saberi Kourosh K
Psychological science 20150512 7
Acoustic rhythms are pervasive in speech, music, and environmental sounds. Recent evidence for neural codes representing periodic information suggests that they may be a neural basis for the ability to detect rhythm. Further, rhythmic information has been found to modulate auditory-system excitability, which provides a potential mechanism for parsing the acoustic stream. Here, we explored the effects of a rhythmic stimulus on subsequent auditory perception. We found that a low-frequency (3 Hz), ...[more]