Event-related potentials reflect spectral differences in speech and non-speech stimuli in children and adults

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 119, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1560-1577

  Ceponiene R ^a   Torki, M ^a   Alku, P ^b   Koyama, A ^a   Townsend, J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Children; ERP; Event related potentials; Non speech; Speech

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONSONANT; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CHILD; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHONETICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 44949091278     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2008.03.005     Document Type: Article

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