Adults with dyslexia are impaired in categorizing speech and nonspeech sounds on the basis of temporal cues

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 10389-10394

  Vandermosten, Maaike ^a   Boets, Bart ^a   Luts, Heleen ^a   Poelmans, Hanne ^a   Golestani, Narly ^b,c   Wouters, Jan ^a   Ghesquière, Pol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory processing; Categorical perception; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TIME PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953763797     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0912858107     Document Type: Article

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