ERP correlates of pre-attentive processing of Cantonese lexical tones: The effects of pitch contour and pitch height

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 487, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 268-272

  Tsang, Yiu Kei ^a   Jia, Shiwei ^a   Huang, Jian ^a   Chen, Hsuan Chih ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Auditory event related potential; Cantonese; Lexical tone; Mismatch negativity; P3a

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 78650523643     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.10.035     Document Type: Article

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