Musicians have fine-tuned neural distinction of speech syllables

Neuroscience

Volumn 219, Issue , 2012, Pages 111-119

  Parbery Clark, A ^a   Tierney, A ^a   Strait, D L ^a   Kraus, N ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Brainstem; Musical training; Speech discrimination; Speech in noise

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CONSONANT; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MUSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN STEM; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864013122     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.05.042     Document Type: Article

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