Dissociation of human and computer voices in the brain: Evidence for a preattentive gestalt-like perception

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 13-21

  Lattner, Sonja ^a   Maess, Burkhard ^a,b   Wang, Yunhua ^a   Schauer, Michael ^a   Alter, Kai ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^a  

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

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory evoked fields; Cortical representations; Long term memory; Magnetoencephalography; MEG; Mismatch negativity; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOICE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTERS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MEMORY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

EID: 0041828753     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.10118     Document Type: Article

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