A cross-linguistic examination of cortical auditory evoked potentials for a categorical voicing contrast

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 490, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 140-144

  Elangovan, Saravanan ^a   Stuart, Andrew ^b  

^a EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorical perception; Cortical auditory evoked potentials; Cross linguistic; P1 N1 P2; Voice onset time; Voicing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL EVOKED AUDITORY POTENTIAL; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EXAMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE; VOICE ONSET TIME; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79451470961     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.12.044     Document Type: Article

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