Cortical asymmetries in speech perception: What's wrong, what's right and what's left?

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 269-276

  McGettigan, Carolyn ^a   Scott, Sophie K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SENSITIVITY; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; SHARP CONTRAST; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH SIGNALS; TEMPORAL LOBES;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES;

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NEUROMODULATION; REVIEW; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SOUND; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84860387558     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2012.04.006     Document Type: Review

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