Low-level information and high-level perception: The case of speech in noise

PLoS Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 0978-0991

  Nahum, Mor ^a   Nelken, Israel ^a   Ahissar, Merav ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DICHOTIC LISTENING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; HUMANS; NOISE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 45149126532     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060126     Document Type: Article

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