Human cortical responses to the speech envelope

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 139-157

  Aiken, Steven J ^a,b   Picton, Terence W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; RECORDING; RESPONSE TIME; SCALP; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; WAVEFORM;

ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERIODICITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 43149122470     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e31816453dc     Document Type: Article

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