Segregation of vowels and consonants in human auditory cortex: Evidence for distributed hierarchical organization

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 1, Issue DEC, 2010, Pages

  Obleser, Jonas ^a,b   Leaver, Amber M ^a   VanMeter, John ^a   Rauschecker, Josef P ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Consonants; fMRI; Multivariate pattern classification; Speech; Syllables; Vowels

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864281149     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00232     Document Type: Article

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