Training the brain to weight speech cues differently: A study of finnish second-language users of english

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1319-1332

  Ylinen, Sari ^a   Uther, Maria ^b   Latvala, Antti ^a   Vepsäläinen, Sara ^a   Iverson, Paul ^c   Akahane Yamada, Reiko ^d   Näätänen, Risto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; TRAINING; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 77952062365     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21272     Document Type: Article

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