Brainstem pitch representation in native speakers of Mandarin is less susceptible to degradation of stimulus temporal regularity

Brain Research

Volumn 1313, Issue , 2010, Pages 124-133

  Krishnan, Ananthanarayan ^a   Gandour, Jackson T ^a   Bidelman, Gavin M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Experience dependent plasticity; Fundamental frequency following response (FFR); Iterated rippled noise (IRN); Language; Pitch

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING ALGORITHM; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN STEM; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74149090919     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.11.061     Document Type: Article

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