Effects of noise and cue enhancement on neural responses to speech in auditory midbrain, thalamus and cortex

Hearing Research

Volumn 169, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 97-111

  Cunningham, Jenna ^a,b   Nicol, Trent ^b   King, Cynthia ^b   Zecker, Steven G ^b   Kraus, Nina ^b  

^a HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic cue enhancement; Central auditory physiology; Learning and attention disorders; Noise; Speech sound perception

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; HEARING; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; LEARNING; MALE; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; MESENCEPHALON; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; THALAMUS; ANIMAL; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMAL; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NOISE; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; THALAMUS; ANIMALS; HUMANS;

EID: 0036019403     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(02)00344-1     Document Type: Article

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