At what time is the cocktail party? A late locus of selective attention to natural speech

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1497-1503

  Power, Alan J ^a   Foxe, John J ^a,b,c   Forde, Emma Jane ^c   Reilly, Richard B ^a   Lalor, Edmund C ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

AESPA; EEG; Exogenous processing; Multi speaker environments

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860684445     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08060.x     Document Type: Article

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