Linguistic status of timbre influences pitch encoding in the brainstem

NeuroReport

Volumn 22, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 801-803

  Krishnan, Ananthanarayan ^a   Gandour, Jackson T ^a   Ananthakrishnan, Saradha ^a   Bidelman, Gavin M ^a,c   Smalt, Christopher J ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

auditory; experience dependent plasticity; frequency following response; human; iterated rippled noise; Mandarin Chinese; pitch; speech; timbre; vowel quality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; VOICE; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN STEM; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053631919     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: 1473558X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32834b2996     Document Type: Article

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