The brain generates its own sentence melody: A Gestalt phenomenon in speech perception

Brain and Language

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 396-401

  Herrmann, Christoph S ^a,b   Friederici, Angela D ^a   Oertel, Ulrich ^a   Maess, Burkhard ^a   Hahne, Anja ^a   Alter, Kai ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain; ELAN; Gestalt; Lateralization; MEG; Pitch; Prosody; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOMENOLOGY; PITCH; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 0037690814     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00054-3     Document Type: Article

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