Phoneme quality and quantity are processed independently in the human brain

NeuroReport

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 1857-1860

  Ylinen, Sari ^a,b,c   Huotilainen, Minna ^a,b   Näätänen, Risto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Helsinki Brain Research Center   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Duration; Event related potential; Mismatch negativity; Phoneme; Speech sound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; MODEL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECOGNITION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 27544490656     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000185959.11465.9b     Document Type: Article

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