Magnetic mismatch fields elicited by vowel duration and pitch changes in Japanese words in humans: Comparison between native- and non-speakers of Japanese

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 353, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 165-168

  Inouchi, Mayako ^a,b   Kubota, Mikio ^c,d   Ferrari, Paul ^d   Roberts, Timothy P L ^d  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Duration; Magnetic mismatch field; Magnetoencephalography; Pitch; Word

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; AUDITORY MEMORY; AUTOANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VOWEL;

EID: 0345096637     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2003.09.047     Document Type: Article

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