Teaching the /r/-/l/ discrimination to Japanese adults: Behavioral and neural aspects

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 77, Issue 4-5, 2002, Pages 657-662

  McClelland, James L ^a,b,c   Fiez, Julie A ^a,b,d   McCandliss, Bruce D ^e  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^e WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hebbian learning; Language learning in adulthood; Learning; Plasticity; Speech discrimination training

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRAINING;

EID: 0036945517     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(02)00916-2     Document Type: Article

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