Representation of the voice onset time (VOT) speech parameter in population responses within primary auditory cortex of the awake monkey

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 307-321

  Steinschneider, Mitchell ^a   Fishman, Yonatan I ^a   Arezzo, Joseph C ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

VOICE ONSET TIME (VOT);

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; LANGUAGE; MALE; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PHONETICS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TIME; VIBRATION; VOCAL CORD; VOICE; VOICE ONSET TIME; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; INHALATION; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0038166092     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1582449     Document Type: Article

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