Neural mechanisms supporting robust discrimination of spectrally and temporally degraded speech

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 527-542

  Ranasinghe, Kamalini G ^a   Vrana, William A ^a   Matney, Chanel J ^a   Kilgard, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cochlear implants; Neural code; Noise vocoded speech; Primary auditory cortex; Spatial patterns; Spatiotemporal patterns; Speech processing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOUND; SPEECH; SPEECH DEGRADATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPIKE WAVE; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COCHLEAR NERVE; FEMALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84865515395     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: 14387573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-012-0328-1     Document Type: Article

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