Neural coding of formant-exaggerated speech in the infant brain

Developmental Science

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 566-581

  Zhang, Yang ^a   Koerner, Tess ^a   Miller, Sharon ^a   Grice Patil, Zach ^a   Svec, Adam ^a   Akbari, David ^a   Tusler, Liz ^a   Carney, Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; PARIETAL LOBE; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PARIETAL LOBE; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 79953799989     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.01004.x     Document Type: Article

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