The Developmental Origins of Voice Processing in the Human Brain

Neuron

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 852-858

  Grossmann, Tobias ^a,b   Oberecker, Regine ^b   Koch, Stefan Paul ^c   Friederici, Angela D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Sysneuro

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; INFANT; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VOICE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOICE;

EID: 77950208870     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.03.001     Document Type: Article

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