Brain regions recruited for the effortful comprehension of noise-vocoded words

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 7-8, 2012, Pages 1145-1166

  Hervais Adelman, Alexis G ^a,b   Carlyon, Robert P ^b   Johnsrude, Ingrid S ^c   Davis, Matthew H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Left inferior frontal cortex; Motor system; Neuroimaging; Vocoded speech

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 84863844730     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2012.662280     Document Type: Article

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