Critical spectral regions for vowel identification

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 155-162

  Sakayori, Shuichi ^a   Kitama, Toshihiro ^a   Chimoto, Sohei ^a   Qin, Ling ^a   Sato, Yu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Formant; Naturally spoken vowels; Spectral envelope; Spectral region; Untrained subjects; Vowel identification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOWEL;

FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 0036286506     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-0102(02)00026-3     Document Type: Article

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