Syntax-induced pattern deafness

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 49, 2009, Pages 21001-21006

  Endress, Ansgar D ^a,b   Hauser, Marc D ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Illusions; Language acquisition; Modularity; Perception; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; RATS; YOUNG ADULT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 73949107786     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0908963106     Document Type: Article

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