Reducing the effects of background noise during auditory functional magnetic resonance imaging of speech processing: Qualitative and quantitative comparisons between two image acquisition schemes and noise cancellation

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 693-704

  Blackman, Graham A ^a   Hall, Deborah A ^a,b  

^a MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b NIHR National Biomedical Research Unit in Hearing   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active noise cancellation; Audibility; Frequency discrimination; Intelligibility; Neuroimaging

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PILOT PROJECTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 79955657436     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2010/10-0143)     Document Type: Article

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