Functional ear (a)symmetry in brainstem neural activity relevant to encoding of voice pitch: A precursor for hemispheric specialization?

Brain and Language

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 226-231

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

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Brainstem; Experience dependent plasticity; Functional ear asymmetry; Fundamental frequency following response (FFR); Human; Language; Mandarin Chinese; Pitch; Subcortical

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CELL ACTIVITY; CHINESE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HEARING; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NERVE PROJECTION; PERCEPTION; PITCH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPEECH; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

ADULT; BRAIN STEM; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EAR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 80054099299     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.05.001     Document Type: Article

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