Common and distinct neural substrates for the perception of speech rhythm and intonation

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1106-1116

  Zhang, Linjun ^a,b   Shu, Hua ^a   Zhou, Fengying ^a   Wang, Xiaoyi ^a   Li, Ping ^c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING LANGUAGE AND CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Intonation; Prosodic processing; Speech rhythm

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953852537     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20922     Document Type: Article

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