Processing of speech and non-speech sounds in the supratemporal plane: Auditory input preference does not predict sensitivity to statistical structure

NeuroImage

Volumn 66, Issue , 2013, Pages 318-332

  Tremblay, P ^a,b   Baroni, M ^c   Hasson, U ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DE L INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EN SANTÉ MENTALE DE QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Language; Speech processing; Statistical regularities; Supratemporal plane

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SUPRATEMPORAL PLANE; TASK PERFORMANCE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84870012247     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.10.055     Document Type: Article

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