Electrophysiological evidence for an early processing of human voices

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages 127-

  Charest, Ian ^a   Pernet, Cyril R ^b   Rousselet, Guillaume A ^a   Quiñones, Ileana ^c   Latinus, Marianne ^a   Fillion Bilodeau, Sarah ^d   Chartrand, Jean Pierre ^d   Belin, Pascal ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c Cuban Neuroscience Centre   (Cuba)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOCALIZATION; VOICE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 70450255178     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-10-127     Document Type: Article

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