The role of spectral and durational properties on hemispheric asymmetries in vowel perception

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1096-1106

  Britton, Brendan ^a   Blumstein, Sheila E ^a   Myers, Emily B ^a   Grindrod, Christopher ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Laterality; Perception; Speech; Vowel

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60549107272     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.12.033     Document Type: Article

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