Universality of categorical perception deficit in developmental dyslexia: An investigation of Mandarin Chinese tones

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 874-882

  Zhang, Yajing ^a,b   Zhang, Linjun ^c   Shu, Hua ^a   Xi, Jie ^d   Wu, Han ^a   Zhang, Yang ^e   Li, Ping ^f  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HEBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING LANGUAGE AND CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^f PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

categorical perception; Dyslexia; event related potential; lexical tones; mismatch negativity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHINA; DYSLEXIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHINA; DYSLEXIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS;

EID: 84863834418     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: 14697610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2012.02528.x     Document Type: Article

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