Brain responses in the processing of lexical pitch-accent by Japanese speakers

NeuroReport

Volumn 18, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 2001-2004

  Sato, Yutaka ^a   Sogabe, Yuko ^a   Mazuka, Reiko ^a,b  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral lateralization; Lexical pitch accent; NIRS; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; MALE; NEAR INFRARED REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 36248973014     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3282f262de     Document Type: Article

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