Listeners modulate temporally selective attention during natural speech processing

Biological Psychology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-34

  Astheimer, Lori B ^a   Sanders, Lisa D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; ERP; N1; Nd; Selective attention; Speech perception; Temporal orienting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NARRATIVE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58049204105     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2008.01.015     Document Type: Article

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