Cortical activity patterns predict speech discrimination ability

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 603-608

  Engineer, Crystal T ^a   Perez, Claudia A ^a   Chen, YeTing H ^a   Carraway, Ryan S ^a   Reed, Amanda C ^a   Shetake, Jai A ^a   Jakkamsetti, Vikram ^a   Chang, Kevin Q ^a   Kilgard, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN CORTEX; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPIKE WAVE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; LANGUAGE TESTS; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PHONETICS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 42649130035     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2109     Document Type: Article

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