The role of the insular cortex in pitch pattern perception: The effect of linguistic contexts

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 41, 2004, Pages 9153-9160

  Wong, Patrick C M ^a,c   Parsons, Lawrence M ^b,d   Martinez, Michael ^b,d   Diehl, Randy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anterior insula; Language; PET; Pitch perception; Prosody; Speech

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; ECOLOGY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSULA; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PITCH; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PITCH PERCEPTION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 5644255592     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2225-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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