Hemispheric balance in coding speech and non-speech sounds in Chinese participants

NeuroReport

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 469-473

  Lin, Yung Yang ^a,b   Chen, Wei Ta ^b,c   Liao, Kwong Kum ^a,b   Yeh, Tzu Chen ^a,b   Wu, Zin An ^a,b   Ho, Low Tone ^a,b  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Chinese; Consonant vowel; Magnetoencephalography; Neuromagnetic 100 ms response; Pure tones; Speech sounds

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY RESPONSE; CHINESE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 16444384018     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200504040-00010     Document Type: Article

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