Neural representation of spectral and temporal information in speech

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1493, 2008, Pages 923-945

  Young, Eric D ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Auditory nerve; Discrimination; Inferior colliculus; Speech; Tonotopic

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUE; BIOACOUSTICS; BRAIN; HEARING; LANGUAGE; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 38549084079     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2151     Document Type: Review

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