Cerebral activation associated with speech sound discrimination during the diotic listening task: An fMRI study

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 65-71

  Ikeda, Yumiko ^a   Yahata, Noriaki ^a,d   Takahashi, Hidehiko ^b   Koeda, Michihiko ^a   Asai, Kunihiko ^c   Okubo, Yoshiro ^a   Suzuki, Hidenori ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c Asai Hospital   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Auditory attention; Diotic listening; Functional MRI; Left anterior superior temporal gyrus; Left inferior temporal gyrus; Right superior temporal gyrus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SOUND; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952885809     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2010.02.006     Document Type: Article

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