Neural dissociation in processing noise and accent in spoken language comprehension

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 77-84

  Adank, Patti ^a,b   Davis, Matthew H ^c   Hagoort, Peter ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accent; Auditory cortex; FMRI; Noise; Prefrontal cortex; Speech

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855726687     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.10.024     Document Type: Article

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