Categorical perception of lexical tones in Chinese revealed by mismatch negativity

Neuroscience

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 223-231

  Xi, J ^a,b   Zhang, L ^c   Shu, H ^a   Zhang, Y ^d   Li, P ^e  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^c BEIJING LANGUAGE AND CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorical perception; Lexical tones; Mandarin Chinese; Mismatch negativity (MMN)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOLUNTEER;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955918650     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.06.077     Document Type: Article

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