Sublexical Properties of spoken words modulate activity in Broca's area but not superior temporal cortex: Implications for models of speech recognition

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2665-2674

  Vaden Jr , Kenneth I ^a,b   Piquado, Tepring ^a   Hickok, Gregory ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORD LIST RECALL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; REACTION TIME; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860389994     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2011.21620     Document Type: Article

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