Cortical representation of vowels reflects acoustic dissimilarity determined by formant frequencies

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 207-213

  Obleser, Jonas ^a   Elbert, Thomas ^a   Lahiri, Aditi ^a   Eulitz, Carsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Auditory evoked field; Auditory evoked potential; Central auditory system

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; TONOTOPY; VOWEL;

ADULT; BRAIN; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETICS; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0037300773     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(02)00193-3     Document Type: Article

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