Perception and neural representation of size-variant human vowels in the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus)

Hearing Research

Volumn 261, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 1-8

  Schebesch, Gabriele ^a   Lingner, Andrea ^a   Firzlaff, Uwe ^a   Wiegrebe, Lutz ^a   Grothe, Benedikt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Auditory midbrain; Auditory object recognition; Spectral processing; Speech; Superior olive; Vocal tract

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GERBIL; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SUPERIOR OLIVARY NUCLEUS; VOCAL CORD; VOCALIZATION; VOWEL;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COCHLEAR NERVE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; HUMANS; INFERIOR COLLICULI; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PHONETICS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS;

EID: 76949094173     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2009.12.016     Document Type: Article

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