On the role of theta-driven syllabic parsing in decoding speech: Intelligibility of speech with a manipulated modulation spectrum

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue JUL, 2012, Pages

  Ghitza, Oded ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascaded neuronal oscillations; Hierarchical window structure; Intelligibility; Modulation spectrum; Speech perception; Syllabic parsing; Synchronization; Theta band

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867090940     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00238     Document Type: Article

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