Perception of a Japanese vowel length contrast by Japanese and American English listeners: Behavioral and electrophysiological measures

Brain Research

Volumn 1360, Issue , 2010, Pages 89-105

  Hisagi, Miwako ^a,b   Shafer, Valerie L ^a   Strange, Winifred ^a   Sussman, Elyse S ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Event related potential; Japanese; Mismatch negativity (MMN); Speech perception; Temporal cue

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPANESE; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED STATES; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOWEL;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957967353     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.08.092     Document Type: Article

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