Preattentive processing of consonant vowel syllables at the level of the supratemporal plane: A whole-head magnetencephalography study

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 251-257

  Mathiak, Klaus ^a   Hertrich, Ingo ^a   Lutzenberger, Werner ^a   Ackermann, Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Formant transient; MEG; Mismatch negativity; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOWEL;

EID: 0032755266     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(99)00027-0     Document Type: Article

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