Cracking the language code: Neural mechanisms underlying speech parsing

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 29, 2006, Pages 7629-7639

  McNealy, Kristin ^a,b   Mazziotta, John C ^a,b,c   Dapretto, Mirella ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center in the Department of Neurology   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; fMRI; Inferior frontal gyrus; Language; Speech perception; Statistical learning; Word segmentation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH THERAPY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; BRAIN; HEARING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33747044958     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5501-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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