Time course of auditory cortex activation during speech processing

Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 135-150

  Pratt, Hillel ^a   Sinai, Alon ^a   Laufer, Ilan ^a   Horev, Nitza ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

event related potentials; language; speech

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE MOVEMENT; GRAY MATTER; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036401385     PISSN: 07926855     EISSN: 21910286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JBCPP.2002.13.2.135     Document Type: Article

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