Selective cortical representation of attended speaker in multi-talker speech perception

Nature

Volumn 485, Issue 7397, 2012, Pages 233-236

  Mesgarani, Nima ^a   Chang, Edward F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUE; ELECTRODE; PERCEPTION; RECONSTRUCTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETER; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTICS; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; ELECTRODE; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; MULTITALKER SPEECH PERCEPTION; NEURAL SELECTIVITY; NEUROMODULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SELECTIVE CORTICAL REPRESENTATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH SPECTROGRAPHY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VOICE ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; LANGUAGE; MALE; NOISE; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NOISE; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84860761516     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11020     Document Type: Letter

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