Phase Patterns of Neuronal Responses Reliably Discriminate Speech in Human Auditory Cortex

Neuron

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1001-1010

  Luo, Huan ^a   Poeppel, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NERVE POTENTIAL; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; THETA RHYTHM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEURONS; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 34250181302     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2007.06.004     Document Type: Article

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