Sensory representations, the auditory cortex, and speech perception

Seminars in Speech and Language

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 319-331

  Phillips, Dennis P ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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