Cortical Activation during Spoken-Word Segmentation in Nonreading-Impaired and Dyslexic Adults

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 2936-2944

  Helenius, Päivi ^a   Salmelin, Riitta ^a   Service, Elisabet ^b   Connolly, John F ^c   Leinonen, Seija ^d   Lyytinen, Heikki ^d  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Lexical access; Magnetoencephalography; N400m; Reading impairment; Speech processing; Temporal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LANGUAGE TEST; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DYSLEXIA; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0036548880     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-07-02936.2002     Document Type: Article

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