Spectral vs. temporal auditory processing in specific language impairment: A developmental ERP study

Brain and Language

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 107-120

  Ceponiene R ^a   Cummings, A ^a,c   Wulfeck, B ^a,c   Ballantyne, A ^b   Townsend, J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Children; ERP; Language impairment; SLI; Temporal processing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; CHILD; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LATENT PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSORY SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; AGING; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 68949101683     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2009.04.003     Document Type: Article

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