The cortical organization of speech processing

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 393-402

  Hickok, Gregory ^a   Poeppel, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN CORTEX; CORTICAL SENSORY APHASIA; FRONTAL LOBE; GENE MAPPING; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORKING MEMORY;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPEECH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34247487053     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2113     Document Type: Review

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