Physiologic correlates of the voice onset time boundary in primary auditory cortex (a1) of the awake monkey: Temporal response patterns

Brain and Language

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 326-340

  Steinschneider, Mitchell ^a   Schroeder, Charles E ^a   Arezzo, Joseph C ^a   Vaughan, Herbert G ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY SYSTEM; MACACA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; VOICE;

ANIMAL; AUDITORY CORTEX; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH, ALARYNGEAL; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0028898405     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brln.1995.1015     Document Type: Article

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