Neural bases of talker normalization

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1173-1184

  Wong, Patrick C M ^a,b   Nusbaum, Howard C ^a   Small, Steven L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 4644288148     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0898929041920522     Document Type: Article

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