Of bats and men

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1545-1547

  Tallal, Paula ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BAT; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN DAMAGE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; DICHOTIC LISTENING; ECHOLOCATION; EDITORIAL; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FREQUENCY MODULATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING DISORDER; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; MUSIC; NONHUMAN; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PHONEME; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STEADY STATE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN WAVES; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; MALE; SOUND;

EID: 84866391544     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00585.2012     Document Type: Editorial

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