Brain potentials to native phoneme discrimination reveal the origin of individual differences in learning the sounds of a second language

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 42, 2008, Pages 16083-16088

  Díaz, Begoña ^a,b   Baus, Cristina ^c   Escera, Carles ^b   Costa, Albert ^a,b   Sebastián Gallés, Núria ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL SANT JOAN DE DÉU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c Facultad de Psicología   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Event related potentials; Mismatch negativity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND; SPEECH;

BRAIN; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 55849083575     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0805022105     Document Type: Article

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