Subcortical laterality of speech encoding

Audiology and Neurotology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 198-207

  Hornickel, Jane ^a,c   Skoe, Erika ^a   Kraus, Nina ^a,b  

^a Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory brainstem responses; Electrophysiology; Subcortical lateralization of speech processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAR; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN STEM; CHILD; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 63449129161     PISSN: 14203030     EISSN: 14219700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000188533     Document Type: Article

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