Perception of ultra-fast speech by a blind listener - Does he use his visual system?

Proceedings of ISSP 2008 - 8th International Seminar on Speech Production

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 297-300

  Moos, Anja ^a   Hertrich, Ingo ^b   Dietrich, Susanne ^b   Trouvain, Jürgen ^a   Ackermann, Hermann ^b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

BRAIN ACTIVITY; CONTROL SUBJECT; FUNCTIONAL LINKS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; PHONOLOGICAL PROCESSING; PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEMS;

VISION AIDS;

EID: 78049270788     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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