What subcortical-cortical relationships tell us about processing speech in noise

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 549-557

  Parbery Clark, Alexandra ^a,b   Marmel, Frederic ^a   Bair, Julia ^c   Kraus, Nina ^a,b  

^a Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory brainstem response; Cortical auditory evoked potentials; N1; Speech in noise

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOUSE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79251602121     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07546.x     Document Type: Article

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