Does semantic context benefit speech understanding through "top-down" processes? evidence from time-resolved sparse fMRI

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3914-3932

  Davis, Matthew H ^a   Ford, Michael A ^a,b   Kherif, Ferath ^c   Johnsrude, Ingrid S ^d  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 80055110305     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00084     Document Type: Article

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