The neural processing of masked speech: Evidence for different mechanisms in the left and right temporal lobes

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1737-1743

  Scott, Sophie K ^a   Rosen, Stuart ^b   Beaman, C Philip ^c   Davis, Josh P ^c   Wise, Richard J S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d MRC CLINICAL SCIENCES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE-LINE CONDITIONS; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; INFORMATIONAL MASKING; MASKING EFFECTS; NEURAL SYSTEMS; NEURAL-PROCESSING; SPEECH MASKERS; SPEECH PERCEPTIONS; SPEECH TARGETS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TARGET SIGNALS; TEMPORAL LOBES;

COMPETITION;

ADULT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 62249133065     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3050255     Document Type: Article

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