Effects of native language and training on lexical tone perception: An event-related potential study

Brain Research

Volumn 1148, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 113-122

  Kaan, Edith ^a   Wayland, Ratree ^a   Bao, Mingzhen ^a   Barkley, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Late negativity; Lexical tone; Mismatch negativity; Neural plasticity; Perceptual training; Second language learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRAINING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMERICAS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; PITCH PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEACHING; THAILAND; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34247329838     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.02.019     Document Type: Article

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