Experience-dependent enhancement of linguistic pitch representation in the brainstem is not specific to a speech context

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1092-1105

  Krishnan, Ananthanarayan ^a,b   Swaminathan, Jayaganesh ^a   Gandour, Jackson T ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; MANDARIN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NOISE; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN STEM; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SOUND; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66049102976     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21077     Document Type: Article

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