Neural representations and mechanisms for the performance of simple speech sequences

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1504-1529

  Bohland, Jason W ^a   Bullock, Daniel ^b   Guenther, Frank H ^b,c  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS;

BASAL GANGLIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRONTAL LOBE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHONETICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPEECH; THALAMUS;

EID: 77953783411     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21306     Document Type: Article

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