Effects of category learning on neural sensitivity to non-native phonetic categories

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1695-1708

  Myers, Emily B ^a   Swan, Kristen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; PARIETAL CORTEX; PHONETICS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPOROPARIETAL AREA; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; FRONTAL LOBE; HABITUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871685942     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00243     Document Type: Article

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