Do we have a "mental syllabary" in the brain? An fMRI study

Motor Control

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 34-51

  Brendel, Bettina ^a   Erb, Michael ^a   Riecker, Axel ^b   Grodd, Wolfgang ^a   Ackermann, Hermann ^a   Ziegler, Wolfram ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c KLINIKUM BOGENHAUSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

fMRI; Pseudowords; Speech motor control; Syllable complexity; Syllable frequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SPEECH;

EID: 79951922582     PISSN: 10871640     EISSN: 15432696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/mcj.15.1.34     Document Type: Article

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