An investigation of prototypical and atypical within-category vowels and non-speech analogues on cortical auditory evoked related potentials (AERPs) in 9year old children

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 106-117

  Bruder, Jennifer ^a   Leppänen, Paavo H T ^b   Bartling, Jürgen ^a   Csépe, Valéria ^c   Démonet, Jean Francois ^d,e   Schulte Körne, Gerd ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Auditory; Children; ERP; Language; P1; Perceptual magnet effect; Prototypical; Vowel

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 79551630538     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2010.09.008     Document Type: Article

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