Importance of timing for understanding speech. Focus on "perceptual consequences of disrupted auditory nerve activity"

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3044-3045

  Oertel, Donata ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN FUNCTION; COCHLEA POTENTIAL; COCHLEAR NERVE; COGNITION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EDITORIAL; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; INNER EAR; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROPATHY; PERCEPTION; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 19344365585     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00020.2005     Document Type: Editorial

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