Electromagnetic recordings reveal latency differences in speech and tone processing in humans

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 355-363

  Tiitinen, Hannu ^a   Sivonen, Päivi ^a   Alku, Paavo ^b   Virtanen, Juha ^a   Näätänen, Risto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Auditory; Glottal excitation; Human; N1m; P2m; Speech; Tone

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VOWEL;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032732035     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(99)00028-2     Document Type: Article

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