A magnetoencephalographic study of Japanese vowel processing

NeuroReport

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1127-1131

  Ogata, Erika ^a   Yumoto, Masato ^a   Itoh, Kenji ^a   Sekimoto, Sotaro ^a   Karino, Shotaro ^a   Kaga, Kimitaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Magnetoencephalography; N1m; Phoneme processing; Vowels

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPOLE; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; SPEECH;

EID: 33745902512     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000230503.47973.b7     Document Type: Article

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