The Essential Role of Premotor Cortex in Speech Perception

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 1692-1696

  Meister, Ingo G ^a,b,c,d   Wilson, Stephen M ^e   Deblieck, Choi ^a   Wu, Allan D ^a   Iacoboni, Marco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PITCH PERCEPTION; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 34848837678     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.08.064     Document Type: Article

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