Perceptual fusion tendency of speech sounds

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1003-1014

  Huang, Ying ^a   Li, Jingyu ^a   Zou, Xuefei ^a   Qu, Tianshu ^a   Wu, Xihong ^a   Mao, Lihua ^a   Wu, Yanhong ^a   Li, Liang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; AUDITORY ORIENTATION; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MODULATION; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SOUND; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650797205     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21470     Document Type: Article

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