Orderly cortical representation of vowel categories presented by multiple exemplars

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 342-350

  Shestakova, Anna ^a,b   Brattico, Elvira ^a,b   Soloviev, Alexei ^c   Klucharev, Vasily ^d   Huotilainen, Minna ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Helsinki Brain Research Center   (Finland)

^c ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^e HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Magnetoencephalography (MEG); N1m; Phoneme processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; SPEECH; SPEECH DISORDER; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 7044223163     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2004.06.011     Document Type: Article

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