Reading and subcortical auditory function

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2699-2707

  Banai, Karen ^a,b   Hornickel, Jane ^a   Skoe, Erika ^a   Nicol, Trent ^a   Zecker, Steven ^a   Kraus, Nina ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Auditory brain stem response; Dyslexia; Frequency following response; Phonological processing; Speech encoding

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PHONETICS; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH;

ADOLESCENT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN STEM; CHILD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 65649115632     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp024     Document Type: Article

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