Human auditory cortex activity shows additive effects of spectral and spatial cues during speech segregation

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 698-707

  Du, Yi ^a,b   He, Yu ^a   Ross, Bernhard ^b   Bardouille, Tim ^b   Wu, Xihong ^a   Li, Liang ^a   Alain, Claude ^b,c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

attention; MEG; scene analysis; speech; streaming

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STEADY STATE; VOWEL;

ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951849144     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq136     Document Type: Article

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