Enhanced physiologic discriminability of stop consonants with prolonged formant transitions in awake monkeys based on the tonotopic organization of primary auditory cortex

Hearing Research

Volumn 271, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 103-114

  Steinschneider, Mitchell ^a   Fishman, Yonatan I ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORMANT TRANSITION; HYPOTHESIS; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SOUND RELATED PHENOMENA; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TONOTOPY; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; CHILD; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 78651075532     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2010.04.008     Document Type: Article

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