Speech- and sound-segmentation in dyslexia: Evidence for a multiple-level cortical impairment

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2420-2427

  Kujala, T ^a,b,c   Halmetoja, J ^a   Naatanen R ^a,b   Alku, P ^d   Lyytinen, H ^e   Sussman, E ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Helsinki Brain Research Center   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^f ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Auditory; Dyslexia; Event related brain potentials; Word segmentation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HYPOACUSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DYSLEXIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33750329526     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.05100.x     Document Type: Article

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