Suppressed alpha oscillations predict intelligibility of speech and its acoustic details

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2466-2477

  Obleser, Jonas ^a   Weisz, Nathan ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

alpha; auditory processing; degraded speech; EEG; neural oscillations; noise vocoding

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPREHENSION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867288137     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr325     Document Type: Article

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