Hemispheric lateralization of the neural encoding of temporal speech features: A whole-head magnetencephalography study

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 511-518

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic cortex; Hemispheric lateralization; Magnetencephalography (MEG); Speech perception; Supratemporal plane; Temporal processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEURONS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032988339     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(98)00054-8     Document Type: Article

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