Disentangling the effects of phonation and articulation: Hemispheric asymmetries in the auditory N1m response of the human brain

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; PHONATION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOWEL; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PHONATION; SPEECH;

EID: 27744530927     PISSN: 14712202     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-6-62     Document Type: Article

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