Electrophysiological evidence of categorical perception of Chinese lexical tones in attentive condition

NeuroReport

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 35-39

  Zhang, Linjun ^a   Xi, Jie ^b   Wu, Han ^c   Shu, Hua ^c   Li, Ping ^d  

^a BEIJING LANGUAGE AND CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

categorical perception; Chinese lexical tones; mismatch negativity; N2b; P3a; P3b

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHINESE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTENTION; CHINA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 82555168183     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: 1473558X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32834e4842     Document Type: Article

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