Hemispheric differences in the effects of context on vowel perception

Brain and Language

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 401-405

  Sjerps, Matthias J ^a   Mitterer, Holger ^a   McQueen, James M ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Contrast effects; Hemispheric differences; Phoneme perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOWEL;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; NOISE; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84858007060     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.12.012     Document Type: Article

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