Word intelligibility and age predict visual cortex activity during word listening

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1360-1371

  Kuchinsky, Stefanie E ^a   Vaden, Kenneth I ^a   Keren, Noam I ^a   Harris, Kelly C ^a   Ahlstrom, Jayne B ^a   Dubno, Judy R ^a   Eckert, Mark A ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; crossmodal; fMRI; speech perception; vascular reactivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BOLD SIGNAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUDITORY CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858700614     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr211     Document Type: Article

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