Plasticity of the human auditory cortex induced by discrimination learning of non-native, mora-timed contrasts of the Japanese language

Learning and Memory

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 253-267

  Menning, Hans ^a   Imaizumi, Satoshi ^c   Zwitserlood, Pienie ^b   Pantev, Christo ^d  

^a Institute of Experimental Audiology   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH;

ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HUMANS; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036743440     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.49402     Document Type: Article

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