The role of the motor system in discriminating normal and degraded speech sounds

Cortex

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 882-887

  D'Ausilio, Alessandro ^a,b   Bufalari, Ilaria ^a   Salmas, Paola ^b   Fadiga, Luciano ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Motor system; Motor theory of speech perception; Speech; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIP; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR SYSTEM; NOISE; SOUND ANALYSIS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TONGUE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84859431663     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2011.05.017     Document Type: Article

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