Language-dependent pitch encoding advantage in the brainstem is not limited to acceleration rates that occur in natural speech

Brain and Language

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 193-198

  Krishnan, Ananthanarayan ^a   Gandour, Jackson T ^a   Smalt, Christopher J ^b   Bidelman, Gavin M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Brainstem; Click trains; Experience dependent plasticity; Frequency following response (FFR); Human; Language; Mandarin Chinese; Pitch; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN STEM; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY FOLLOWING RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING; LANGUAGE; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN STEM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PITCH PERCEPTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 77955312041     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2010.05.004     Document Type: Article

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