Multiple stages of auditory speech perception reflected in event-related fMRI

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2251-2257

  Obleser, Jonas ^a,b   Zimmermann, Jonas ^a   Van Meter, John ^a   Rauschecker, Josef P ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Consonants; fMRI; Hierarchical processing; Planum temporale; Speech

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HEARING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33847354466     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhl133     Document Type: Article

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