Speech perception in the child brain: Cortical timing and its relevance to literacy acquisition

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2193-2206

  Parviainen, Tiina ^a,b   Helenius, Päivi ^a   Poskiparta, Elisa ^c   Niemi, Pekka ^c,d   Salmelin, Riitta ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Auditory perception; Development; Language; Magnetoencephalography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY CORTICAL ACTIVATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCHOOL CHILD; SOUND; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; READING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81055133526     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21181     Document Type: Article

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