Hemispheric asymmetries in phonological processing of tones versus segmental units

NeuroReport

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 690-694

  Li, Xiaojian ^a   Gandour, Jackson T ^b   Talavage, Thomas ^c,d   Wong, Donald ^e   Hoffa, Angela ^c   Lowe, Mark ^f   Dzemidzic, Mario ^g  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Purdue University   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Departments of Anatomy and Cell Biology   (United States)

^f LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Language; Lexical tone; Mandarin; Prosody; Selective attention; Verbal working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954027777     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32833b0a10     Document Type: Article

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