Perception of noise-vocoded speech sounds: Sentences, words, accents and melodies

Acoustical Science and Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 325-331

  Riquimaroux, Hiroshi ^a  

^a DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amplitude envelope; Brain plasticity; Functional MRI; Noise vocoded speech sounds; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AMPLITUDE ENVELOPE; BRAIN PLASTICITY; NOISE VOCODED SPEECH SOUND (NVSS); SPEECH PERCEPTION;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 33750896655     PISSN: 13463969     EISSN: 13475177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1250/ast.27.325     Document Type: Article

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