It's not what you say but the way that you say it: An fMRI study of differential lexical and non-lexical prosodic pitch processing

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Tracy, Derek K ^a   Ho, David K ^a   O'Daly, Owen ^a   Michalopoulou, Panayiota ^a   Lloyd, Lisa C ^a   Dimond, Eleanor ^a   Matsumoto, Kazunori ^b   Shergill, Sukhwinder S ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PITCH; PROSODIC PITCH PROCESSING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; ADOLESCENT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HEARING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITCH PERCEPTION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83655183272     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-12-128     Document Type: Article

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