Left-hemispheric brain activity reflects formant transitions in speech sounds

NeuroReport

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 549-553

  Mäkelä, Anna Mari ^a,b   Alku, Paavo ^c   May, Patrick J C ^a,b   Mäkinen, Ville ^a,b   Tiitinen, Hannu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Diphthong; Formant transition; Human; Magnetoencephalography; N100m; N400m; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 17844407130     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200504250-00006     Document Type: Article

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