An investigation of the relation between sibilant production and somatosensory and auditory acuity

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 3079-3087

  Ghosh, Satrajit S ^a   Matthies, Melanie L ^b   Maas, Edwin ^c   Hanson, Alexandra ^b   Tiede, Mark ^d   Ḿnard, Lucie ^e   Guenther, Frank H ^b   Lane, Harlan ^f   Perkell, Joseph S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^f NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE FORCED CHOICE; ANOVA ANALYSIS; AUDITORY ACUITY; DEPENDENT VARIABLES; MAIN EFFECT; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; SOMATOSENSORY; SPEECH PRODUCTION; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

LINEAR REGRESSION;

PRODUCTION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROPRIOCEPTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TONGUE; TOUCH;

AUDITORY CORTEX; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PROPRIOCEPTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TONGUE; TOUCH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649592546     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3493430     Document Type: Article

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