Effortful listening: The processing of degraded speech depends critically on attention

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 40, 2012, Pages 14010-14021

  Wild, Conor J ^a   Yusuf, Afiqah ^b   Wilson, Daryl E ^b   Peelle, Jonathan E ^c,d   Davis, Matthew H ^d   Johnsrude, Ingrid S ^b,e  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^e LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STIMULATION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NOISE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY GATING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866981622     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1528-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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