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This chapter reviews auditory research performed with magnetoencephalography (MEG) in normal listeners, with an emphasis on the auditory cortex. The first section provides an overview of basic characteristics of auditory evoked fields and their classification. The second section reviews the relationship between a selection of basic auditory features—including lateralization, periodicity, and spectral content—and auditory evoked fields generated in auditory cortex. The final section highlights recent MEG research in the field of auditory scene analysis, focusing specifically on auditory stream segregation, selective attention, and informational masking.

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Gutschalk, A. (2014). MEG Auditory Research. In: Supek, S., Aine, C. (eds) Magnetoencephalography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33045-2_32

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