The temporal relationship between speech auditory brainstem responses and the acoustic pattern of the phoneme /ba/ in normal-hearing adults

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 922-933

  Akhoun, I ^a   Gallego S ^a   Moulin, A ^a   Menard M ^a   Veuillet, E ^a   Berger Vachon, C ^a   Collet, L ^a   Thai Van, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Auditory brainstem response; Consonant vowels; Frequency following response; Periodicity; Speech processing; Temporal coding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; TRANSDUCER; WAVEFORM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 40849146952     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2007.12.010     Document Type: Article

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