Statistical segmentation of tone sequences activates the left inferior frontal cortex: A near-infrared spectroscopy study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2787-2795

  Abla, Dilshat ^a,b   Okanoya, Kazuo ^a,b,c  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Broca's area; Optical topography; Statistical learning; Word segmentation

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; OXYHEMOGLOBINS; PHONETICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

EID: 47349086172     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.05.012     Document Type: Article

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