Changes in sensory evoked responses coincide with rapid improvement in speech identification performance

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 392-403

  Alain, Claude ^a,b   Campeanu, Sandra ^a,b   Tremblay, Kelly ^c  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NOISE; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75749130296     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21279     Document Type: Article

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