Cortical mechanisms of speech perception in noise

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1026-1041

  Wong, Patrick C M ^a   Uppunda, Ajith K ^a   Parrish, Todd B ^a   Dhar, Sumitrajit ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Auditory perception; Noise; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NOISE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 48749124239     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2008/075)     Document Type: Article

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