A sparse neural code for some speech sounds but not for others

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Scharinger, Mathias ^a   Bendixen, Alexandra ^b   Trujillo Barreto, Nelson J ^c   Obleser, Jonas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c CUBAN NEUROSCIENCE CENTER   (Cuba)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONSONANT; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; FEMALE; GERMAN; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NERVE CELL CODE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84864018958     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040953     Document Type: Article

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