Brainstem encoding of voiced consonant-vowel stop syllables

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 119, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2623-2635

  Johnson, Krista L ^a   Nicol, Trent ^a   Zecker, Steven G ^a   Bradlow, Ann R ^a   Skoe, Erika ^a   Kraus, Nina ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory brainstem response; Speech encoding; Stop consonant vowel syllables

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CONSONANT; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN STEM; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 54149090799     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2008.07.277     Document Type: Article

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