Hierarchical processing for speech in human auditory cortex and beyond

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Peelle, Jonathan E ^a   Johnsrude, Ingrid S ^b   Davis, Matthew H ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIMATE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 79953038128     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2010.00051     Document Type: Article

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