The right-hemispheric auditory cortex in humans is sensitive to degraded speech sounds

NeuroReport

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 601-605

  Liikkanen, Lassi A ^a,b   Tiitinen, Hannu ^a,b   Alku, Paavo ^c   Leino, Sakari ^a,b   Yrttiaho, Santeri ^c   May, Patrick J C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Auditory; Compression; Human; Magnetoencephalography; N1m; Perception; Quantization; Speech; Vowel

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 34247107233     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3280b07bde     Document Type: Article

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