Neuromagnetic functional coupling during dichotic listening of speech sounds

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 253-264

  Brancucci, Alfredo ^a   Della Penna, Stefania ^a   Babiloni, Claudio ^b,c   Vecchio, Fabrizio ^c   Capotosto, Paolo ^a   Rossi, Davide ^a   Franciotti, Raffaella ^a   Torquati, Kathya ^a   Pizzella, Vittorio ^a   Rossini, Paolo M ^c   Romani, Gian Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c Universit Campus Biomedico   (Italy)

Author keywords

Consonant vowel (CV) syllables; Dichotic listening; Functional coupling; Magnetoencephalography (MEG); Primary auditory cortex; Spectral coherence; Wernicke's area

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; WAVEFORM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BRAIN MAPPING; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEARING; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PHONETICS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 40649102226     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20385     Document Type: Article

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