The use of cortical auditory evoked potentials to evaluate neural encoding of speech sounds in adults

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 559-572

  Agung, Katrina ^a,b,d   Purdy, Suzanne C ^a,b,c   McMahon, Catherine M ^b   Newall, Philip ^b  

^a NATIONAL ACOUSTIC LABORATORIES   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical auditory evoked potentials; Ling sound test; Speech evoked cortical potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY EVOKED POTENTIAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; HEARING; INFANT; REACTION TIME; SOUND;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NERVE TISSUE; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33749477334     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.17.8.3     Document Type: Article

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