Mismatch negativity to pitch contours is influenced by language experience

Brain Research

Volumn 1128, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 148-156

  Chandrasekaran, Bharath ^a   Krishnan, Ananthanarayan ^a   Gandour, Jackson T ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Experience dependent plasticity; Lexical tone; Mandarin Chinese; Mismatch negativity; Pitch; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CHINESE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; SOUND;

EID: 33845978350     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.10.064     Document Type: Article

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