The neurotopography of vowels as mirrored by evoked magnetic field measurements

Brain and Language

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 143-168

  Diesch, Eugen ^a   Eulitz, Carsten ^b   Hampson, Scott ^b   Ross, Bernhard ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DIPOLE; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; TOPOGRAPHY; VOWEL;

EID: 0029878611     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brln.1996.0042     Document Type: Article

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