Pre-attentive perception of vowel phonemes from variable speech stimuli

Psychophysiology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 654-659

  Jacobsen, Thomas ^a   Schröger, Erich ^a   Alter, Kai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory sensory memory; Event related potentials; Mismatch negativity; Phonemes; Speech perception; Vowels

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LOUDNESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULATION; VOICE;

EID: 2442480815     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-8986.2004.00175.x     Document Type: Article

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