Brain mechanisms implicated in the preattentive categorization of speech sounds revealed using fMRI and a short-interval habituation trial paradigm

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2084-2093

  Joanisse, Marc F ^a   Zevin, Jason D ^b   McCandliss, Bruce D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorical perception; fMRI adaptation; Middle temporal gyrus; Speech perception; Superior temporal gyrus

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 34548036255     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhl124     Document Type: Article

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