Magnetic brain activity phase-locked to the envelope, the syllable onsets, and the fundamental frequency of a perceived speech signal

Psychophysiology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 322-334

  Hertrich, Ingo ^a   Dietrich, Susanne ^a   Trouvain, Jürgen ^b   Moos, Anja ^c   Ackermann, Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Language speech; MEG; Normal volunteers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN; HEARING; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84856739820     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01314.x     Document Type: Article

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