Specificity of experience-dependent pitch representation in the brainstem

NeuroReport

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 1601-1605

  Xu, Yisheng ^a   Krishnan, Ananthanarayan ^b   Gandour, Jackson T ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Brainstem; Experience dependent plasticity; Frequency following response; Lexical tone; Mandarin Chinese; Pitch

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MANDARIN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN STEM; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33749034991     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000236865.31705.3a     Document Type: Article

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