Activation and application of an obligatory phonotactic constraint in German during automatic speech processing is revealed by human event-related potentials

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-20

  Steinberg, Johanna ^a   Truckenbrodt, Hubert ^b   Jacobsen, Thomas ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b Centre for General Linguistics ZAS   (Germany)

^c HELMUT SCHMIDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Event related potentials (ERP); Long term memory; Mismatch Negativity (MMN); Phonology; Speech processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; GERMANY; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953540895     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2010.03.011     Document Type: Article

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