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A long auditory stimulus elicits a magnetic evoked response in the human brain, consisting of transient deflections followed by a sustained response. The distributions of the magnetic fields indicate that the auditory evoked transient response at a latency of 100 ms as well as the auditory sustained response are generated at and around the primary auditory cortex.
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Hari, R., Aittoniemi, K., Järvinen, M.L. et al. Auditory evoked transient and sustained magnetic fields of the human brain localization of neural generators. Exp Brain Res 40, 237–240 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00237543
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