The auditory N1m reveals the left-hemispheric representation of vowel identity in humans

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 353, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 111-114

  Mäkelä, Anna Mari ^a,b   Alku, Paavo ^c   Tiitinen, Hannu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Human; Magnetoencephalography; N1m; Speech perception; Vowels

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIPOLE; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOWEL;

EID: 0345528169     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2003.09.021     Document Type: Article

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