Early cortical processing of linguistic pitch patterns as revealed by the mismatch negativity

Neuroscience

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 87-95

  Ren, G Q ^a   Yang, Y ^a   Li, X ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

auditory; intonation; lexical tone; mandarin Chinese; mismatch negativity; pitch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHINESE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; PARIETAL LOBE; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PITCH PERCEPTION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349149653     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.04.021     Document Type: Article

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