On the matching of top-down knowledge with sensory input in the perception of ambiguous speech

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Eulitz, C ^a   Hannemann, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 77952857979     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-11-67     Document Type: Article

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