Behavioral and fMRI evidence that cognitive ability modulates the effect of semantic context on speech intelligibility

Brain and Language

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 103-113

  Zekveld, Adriana A ^a,b   Rudner, Mary ^a   Johnsrude, Ingrid S ^a,c   Heslenfeld, Dirk J ^d   Rönnberg, Jerker ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

FMRI; Spoken sentence perception; Text cues; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FACILITATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALITY; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INSULA; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRECUNEUS; READING; READING SPAN TEST; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; TEXT RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864306738     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.05.006     Document Type: Article

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