Different brain strategies underlie the categorical perception of foreign and native phonemes

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1376-1385

  Minagawa Kawai, Yasuyo ^a,b   Mori, Koichi ^b   Sato, Yutaka ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; KOREA; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 24744435568     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0898929054985482     Document Type: Article

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